The Plough #24
30 January 2004

E-Mail Newsletter of the Irish Republican Socialist Party

1. Condolences
2. IRSP Meeting
3. Facts on Primary School Education in Ireland
4. Prison Protest Looms
5. Anti-Racist Rally 
6. Genocide Against the Colombian Trade Unions 
7. Report on Rally at London Hunger Strike Tent, January 24
8. Convention of the Left - Derry February 14th 2004
9. Stop Killer Coke Campaign
10. What's On?

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The IRSP wish to express our deepest regret at the sudden and 
unexpected death of Josephine Kelly, a former member of the Ard-
Chomhairle of the IRSP and a staunch supporter of the Republican 
Socialist Movement. She was buried today Friday in the City 
Cemetery and her funeral was attended by leading comrades from the 
Derry area. 

The Ard-Chomhairle of the IRSP was represented by Gerry Ruddy, who 
expressed sincere condolences to Josephine's brother Vincent, an 
active member of the Party.

Josephine was buried just a few yards from the grave of Maura White, 
wife of a former leading member of the IRSP, Johnny White. Maura died 
in 2003. We can ill afford to lose such comrades and supporters. May 
they rest in peace.

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IRSP Meeting

There will be an IRSP meeting in Culturlann on the Falls Road at 
Broadway next Tuesday night, 3rd February, when Davy Carlin from the 
Anti Racist Network will give a talk on racism in Belfast. The 
meeting is open to all with an interest in republicanism-socialism 
and/or racism. Meeting starts at 7.00pm

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Facts on Primary School Education In Ireland

Ireland spends less on primary education than all EU countries except 
Greece. 

Spending on Irish primary education is only 70% of that at second 
level and only 30% of that at third level. 

Average class sizes in Ireland are higher than any EU country except 
the UK. 

On average there are ten extra pupils in every Irish primary 
classroom compared to Luxembourg. 

Over 5,000 special needs pupils are waiting nearly a year for a 
response to their resource applications. 

About a thousand pupils do not even transfer to second level schools 
each year. 

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds come to school cold, hungry 
and poorly dressed. 

Children are brought to school on clapped out busses.

(Taken from INTO press release)

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Prison Protest Looms

Many republicans will have been disgusted at the recent turn of 
events involving the UDA. Their prisoners rioted in Magilligan and 
tried to kill a republican prisoner they perceived to be an INLA 
prisoner. They failed. They brought Belfast to a stand still with a 
series of bomb alerts and attempted to kill nationalist youths with a 
bomb at a GAA ground. They were then rewarded with meetings with the 
British Security Minister Jane Kennedy and they then travelled to 
Dublin to meet with Bertie Ahern. Are we to take from this the 
lesson that violence pays? That surely can be the only conclusion to 
be drawn from that series of events.

The prison protest itself has to be seen against a background of the 
Prison Warders Union the POA, deliberately provoking the loyalists in 
order to strengthen their hand in negotiations with the British 
Government. As long as there is tension in the jails then the riot 
squads will be on standby and huge amounts of overtime clocked up by 
the warders. Cynical or what? It works. They already have forced the 
British Government to spend £28 millions on personal security for
the screws - something they never did for the RUC during the whole of 
the troubles. More trouble is brewing in the jails itself. The 
proposals for separation are infringements of the human rights of the 
prisoners. Indeed those who accept separation will have worse 
conditions than the rest of the prison population.

The power in the Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill, which is shortly to 
become law, gives the British Secretary of State the right to 
transfer remand or sentenced prisoners to Britain from prisons in the 
Six Counties. The new power is intended to "prevent slippage" from 
the proposed separated regime for Republican and loyalist prisoners 
in Maghaberry to the H-Block style Special Category Status which was 
introduced after the 1981 hunger-strikes and then scrapped by the 
1998 Stormont Agreement. 

A spokesperson for the IRSP, Willie Gallagher, said that they would 
be seeking to work closely with other republicans to highlight the 
political status issue. Worsening conditions and exiling prisoners is 
not new. The sentenced 1916 Rising prisoners were dispersed to 
various jails in England. Terence Mac Swiney died on hunger strike in 
Brixton jail, London in 1920. In 1922 imprisoned Republicans were 
sent to Peterhead jail in the north of Scotland and were not released 
until 1926-27. In the 1940s Republicans were jailed in Parkhurst and 
Dartmoor. In the 1970s Parkhurst in the Isle of Wight was where Irish 
Republican prisoner Michael Gaughan died on hunger strike. His fellow 
Mayo Republican Frank Stagg died on hunger strike in Wakefield 
prison, Yorkshire. 

(Source: RSF)

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Anti-Racist Rally

The rally was a brilliant success with up to 2000 people in 
attendance on a freezing cold lunchtime at the end of January. Many 
top politicians and community leaders attended. As did also many 
trade unionists, with banners from trades union councils and trade 
unions, such as that of NIPSA, FBU, UNISON and NAFHE etc. Banners 
also came from local communities from around Belfast and from student 
and human rights organisations. With also many, many attending from 
minority ethnic organisations and support groups. To organise such a 
rally in such a small space of time given the fact that we are not 
funded etc is a credit to all those involved and to the activist 
based Anti Racist Network. (ARN) We sent out a visual and united 
voice to the world against the racial attack.  The next meeting of 
the ARN is next Wednesday and details will be sent shortly. 

(D. Carlin)

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CONTINUOUS GENOCIDE AGAINST THE COLOMBIAN TRADE UNION MOVEMENT  

72 CUT members were assassinated in 2003 

The social, political and human rights situation in Colombia worsens 
daily, which shows that the solution is not to increase war and 
violence. The state-government and the armed groups (insurgency, 
paramilitary and armed forces) have evaded the United Nations’ 27 
recommendations for human rights policy. The Colombian state has 
completed none of the recommendations; it is clear that President of 
the Republic Dr. Álvaro Uribe Vélez is applying the policies of 
democratic security’. 

There have been massive detentions in which the government does not 
fulfil codes and international treaties, illegal raids and 72 union 
leaders were murdered last year. The concern today is all the 
greater; now that an antiterrorist statute has been approved which we 
are sure will not be applied to terrorists. On the contrary, this 
whole policy is directed to hit and to put an end to the 
organizational processes of the social movement that generate 
opposition to the policies of North American imperialism and the 
government of Álvaro Uribe Vélez. 

MURDER 

On 17th January 2004, RICARDO BARRAGÁN ORTEGA was murdered as he
was leaving his place of residence. He as an activist and member of 
the Cali Municipal Corporation Workers Union - SINTRAEMCALI - CUT. 
The comrade was on his way to the Navarrese Centre Operations Yard to 
play a soccer game with his work mates when he was intercepted by two 
motorcyclists who shot him five times in the head. One of the 
assassins who participated in the comrade Ricardo¹s murder was 
captured by the police as he tried to flee the place of the crime. He 
was transferred to Guabal Neighbourhood Police Station. 

The comrade had been characterized by his technical contributions to 
the proposal to save EMCALI, and he had made ingenious contributions 
to reduce the costs, to increase the revenues and to optimise human 
resources. And he had been active participating in the protest days 
of the workers to defend EMCALI EICE ESP from privatisation. 

DEATH THREATS 

On 13th January 2004, an envelope with a condolence card [standard 
form of assassin threat] was left in the offices of the Atlántico 
branch of ANTHOC [health workers union]. It was addressed to the 
Committee of this organization, citing the names of GILBERTO
MARTÍNEZ (member of the National Committee), CARMEN TORRES (member
of the Departmental Committee, ÁLVARO MÁRQUEZ (member of the
Departmental Committee), JOSÉ MERIÑO (member of the
Departmental Committee) and ANGEL SALAS (member of the National 
Committee). It was apparently from the AUC (United Self-defences of 
Colombia) [paramilitaries] and is signed with the letters Antonio 
Uparela Castro at the end. 

On 16th January 2004, a death threat arrived at the electronic mail 
of the CUT (United Workers Federation of Colombia). It was from 
someone calling themselves "Major Rigoberto Zarate Ospina Cell 18" of 
the Block Calarca of the AUC e-mail (bloquecalarcapara@hotmail.com) 
and in which death threats against union leaders in Risaralda are 
confirmed. It was necessary to take these leaders out of the country 
last October in the face of the siege and death sentence passed by 
this paramilitary unit. 

In this sentence the paramilitaries condemn not only the social work 
of the "Social Pastoral of Colombia [church] but the State of CHILE 
for giving refuge to criminals of little worth as are the union 
leaders of the CUT in Risaralda; and they point out that their armed 
units are already placed in Chile awaiting the order to begin 
locating the whereabouts and then the execution of those called civil 
subversives." 

On 21st January 2004 once again the national and local leaders of 
ANTHOC are the objects of death threats. [This time] by the Peasants 
AUC of Magdalena's Medio who have declared as targets JESUS ALFONSO 
NARANJO and MARIO NEL MORA PATIÑO representatives of the Human
Rights Department and Medical Mission. This is for making accusations 
against administrative corruption and rising national and 
international protest actions against the constant and repeated 
threats, forced displacements and assassinations of health officials 
and especially of their members. The paramilitaries claim in their 
note that the two leaders are not human rights defenders, but 
guerrilla fighters infiltrated in the union movement, for such a 
reason they will be eliminated in any part of the country. 

The government intends to apply a plan in the department of the Cauca 
in the south west of the country like the plan it has applied in 
Arauca. In Arauca the government persecuted, harassed and imprisoned 
the leadership of the social movements. In Cauca massive detentions 
have been carried out in the last year. There are populations 
(municipalities) that are closed off by the National Army and others 
by the paramilitary groups violating the most elementary rights and 
even international treaties. For example they control the entrance of 
food to the peasants and they don't allow them to take out their 
products, which of course deteriorates the quality of the civil 
population's life. In the union movement the Executive Committee of 
the Subdirectiva CUT Cauca and the Executive Committee of unions have 
been threatened recently. Several comrades have been forced by the 
circumstances of threats to abandon their region where the right to 
association right and union freedoms are palpably being violated. 

DETENTIONS 

The government presents Cartagena as the paradise of the Americas. 
Cartagena is the capital of Bolívar Department where,
unfortunately the social movement has registered around 350 illegal 
detentions in the previous year. 

It is clear that in Colombia respect for the freedom of expression 
does not exist and hence silence covers acts infringing human rights. 
For this reason, we demand real guarantees on the part of the State 
to exercise the union freedoms in Colombia. 

DOMINGO TOVAR ARRIETA 
Director Human Rights Department
Bogotá, D. C. 23 January 2004

TRABAJAMOS POR LA UNIDAD DEL SINDICALISMO COLOMBIANO
Calle 35 No. 7-25 P.9 PBX y FAX 3237550-3237950 Bogotá, D.C.
–Colombia
Email: cut@cut.org.co - derechoshumanos@cut.org.co 

[Retranslated from original Spanish by Colombia Solidarity Campaign]

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Report on rally at London hunger strike tent, January 24

The protest rally at Seven Sisters took place on the 34th day of the 
hunger strike there. First of all, placards bearing the pictures of 
those who have died in the prison protest in Turkey opposing 
isolation imprisonment were attached to a long cord, which was then 
strung from one lamp-post to another, forming a kind of banner. Then 
Ayfer Yildiz, one of the three people on 45-day hunger strike, read 
out a press statement in English in which she described the reasons 
for the protest. It touched on the December 2000 prison massacre in 
Turkey and the ongoing hunger strike and related protests in which a 
total of 107 people have lost their lives. The statement said, "The 
political prisoners have sacrificed a great deal so far for their 
demands, and they have resolved to make further sacrifices." The 
statement also called on Europeans to criticise their governments' 
support for the repression practised by the Turkish government. 
Ibrahim Yalcin, another of the 45-day hunger strikers, read out a 
shorter statement along the same lines in Turkish. Well-wishers who 
were not from Turkey or Kurdistan added a few words of support. Then 
the rally ended with the dancing of a halay (a kind of round dance 
popular in Turkey) and the playing of some folk music. Some 
representatives of the media attended - a cameraman and reporter from 
ITV London Tonight, a reporter from the Press Association, a 
freelance photographer, a reporter from an alternative radio station 
called Resonance Radio and a representative of the London Turkish-
language press. The Press Association reporter was given an 
interview, as was the reporter from Resonance Radio. Ayfer did a 
short interview to camera for London To night. 

The hunger strike is continuing and will end on the 45th day, 
February 4. 

(From: "Stephen Kaczynski" http://www.seaderry.co.uk/

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Stop Killer Coke Campaign

From mid-November through the end of the year, there was a lot of 
good news to report in the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke. Over the 
Nov. 22 weekend, thousands of religious, Labor and peace activists 
led by Father Roy Bourgeois marched against the School of the 
Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Hundreds of our protest signs 
were carried and thousands of our brochures and petitions were 
distributed. 

The following Tuesday, some 5,000 signed "Unthinkable! Undrinkable!" 
petitions were delivered by a group of supporters to Coke's 
headquarters, led by union carpenter Ken Little, our Northwest 
Campaign Co-ordinator who is also the labor liaison to SOA Watch. 
Quite a few participants who received our literature at the SOA 
demonstrations and the FTAA demonstrations in Florida contacted us to 
ask how they could support the Campaign. 

On December 7, Ray Rogers addressed a meeting of United Auto Workers 
Local 22, the largest General Motors local in Detroit. The attached 
article in The Steward, the Local 22 publication, describes the 
terrific response of the membership and leadership of the local: "Now 
the Coke machine in our union hall has been disconnected and the 
president made calls to the bottler telling him we no longer need the 
Coke machine and Coke products. We are going to try to do the same in 
all our plants." Also present at the meeting was UAW International 
Vice President and Organizing Director Bob King, who stated: "This is 
a campaign that everyone should support and has to be won." 

Local 22-newspaper editor John Martinez is a Campaign Co-ordinator in 
the Detroit area. Attached is his letter to the editor of La Prensa, 
which is widely distributed throughout greater Detroit and northern 
Ohio. The last four paragraphs contain the kind of message that we 
want to communicate to the Latino community. John is working with 
several universities, labor and Latino groups in the Detroit area to 
organize a large rally in mid-April.

The United Hebrew Trades Division of the Jewish Labor Committee has 
endorsed and is active in the Campaign. In November, the organization 
sent out our "Colombian Coke Float" petition to all its members with 
the following message: "United Hebrew Trades joins in supporting this 
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, and urges all members and affiliates to 
choose beverages not bottled by Coca-Cola. This is an ongoing 
campaign which will need a lot of support."

Many students from coast to coast and internationally are requesting 
Campaign materials and advice. They’re asking how to place
pressure on college and university administrators to sever, not renew 
or not consider contracts with Coke. On Dec.5, students on many 
campuses protested on the anniversary of Isidro Gil's murder. We 
expect to be well represented at the United Students Against 
Sweatshops conference in mid-February in Atlanta. 

Betsy Guerra, a teacher at Lyon Elementary School in Washington 
State, was so moved by Juan Galvis's presentation and our literature 
that she took the issue to the school's principal and its social 
committee. As a result, the Coke machine in the faculty lounge was 
replaced with a Pepsi machine. Betsy says, "This is only costing Coke 
20 cases a month, but now I'm working to get other friends, 
colleagues and faculty unions to spread the word and do the same." 
Her friends are now asking for rum and Pepsi in bars.

Atlanta's main business publication, the Atlanta Business Chronicle 
(11/24/03), covered student protest in Ireland and in the U.S. as 
well as other aspects of the Campaign in a front-page story. (Read 
the article, "Students Call for Coke Boycott," on www.killercoke.org 
in the News section.) 

On December 24, in its annual article recommending worthy causes for 
activists and philanthropists to support, entitled "The Magnificent 
9," the national newsletter Counterpunch listed the Campaign to Stop 
Killer Coke as one of the nine worthiest. Counterpunch is co-edited 
by investigative journalists Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.

In Canada on Dec.13, more than 30 labor, student and human rights 
activists led by Campaign Coordinator Larry Wells of the Oakville and 
District Labour Council distributed thousands of "Coke Float" 
petitions to fans entering a hockey game between the Toronto Maple 
Leafs and the New York Rangers. A Canadian version of the petition 
highlighted Coke board member J. Pedro Reinhard and his presence on 
the board of the Royal Bank of Canada. In late November, Bill 
Saunders, president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, 
distributed our literature to 800 delegates at the British Columbia 
Federation of Labor’s policy convention. Both Bill and Larry are 
working with us to broaden support among labor unions and on campuses 
in Canada.

Enterpriserisk, a business magazine in London, has published an 
article on the International Labor Rights Fund in its Dec.-Jan. 
issue. It will also publish a full-page piece on the Campaign to Stop 
Killer Coke in the February issue. 

Forbes magazine (12/4/03) ran an article entitled: "Coke's Sinful 
World," in which they state what we already knew: "The biggest 
bottlers aren't subsidiaries of Coke, nor are they completely 
independent. Coke effectively controls them by maintaining big equity 
stakes and a heavy presence on their boards, and by providing their 
main source of business. Yet it keeps its stakes in the bottlers 
below 50%, thereby avoiding getting hit with their piles of debt and 
any unpleasant liabilities." 

On Jan. 9, a fact-finding delegation of unionists led by New York 
City Council member Hiram Monserrate left for Colombia. If they 
conclude that the allegations against Coke have merit, the next step 
could be a move to bring the issue before the City Council. Public 
sector unions in New York have hundreds of millions of dollars of 
public pension funds invested in Coke. 

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Please visit http://www.killercoke.org/ for updates and new material. 
We would appreciate any photos of activities in which you are 
involved. We will soon send you a report, "How Credible is Coca-
Cola?" describing many of Coke’s abuses around the world. Since
Coca-Cola consistently fails to live up to the standards 
for "corporate responsibility" as set out in any "code of conduct," 
this report should be helpful to students, faculty and others seeking 
to rescind, not renew or not consider contracts with Coke.

Peace & Justice, 

Ray Rogers 
Director 
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke 
Corporate Campaign, Inc. 
(212) 979-8320 

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Republican Socialist Prisoners of War 

Castlerea Prison
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Declan Duffy [9 years-20 August 1973-Armagh/Dublin-April 2008]
Dessie O'Hare [Life-N/A-South Armagh-No Fixed Date]

Number 2, The Grove
Castlerea Prison
Harristown
Castlrea, Co. Roscommon
Ireland

Portlaoise Prison
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Gerry Burns [5 years-7 October 1962-Dublin-May 2005]
Cathal Gartland [4 years-N/A-Dundalk-May 2007]
Kevin McLaughlin [4 years-13 November 1965-Belfast-August 2004]

Portlaoise Prison
Dublin Road
Portlaoise, Co. Laois
Ireland

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http://www.irsm.org/irspows/ 

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John Brady - January 31st, 1969

Birthday cards to John will be greatly appreciated even if belated.

John was released under the 1998 "GFA" Treaty.  Following his
recent arrest in Derry, his license was revoked and he is now held 
under a resumed Life sentence.  

JOHN BRADY
Lagan 2
Maghaberry Prison
Upper Ballinderry Road
Lisburn, Co. Antrim
BT 28 2PT
North of Ireland 

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What's On?

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BLOODY SUNDAY COMMEMORATIONS 

Saturday 31 January

Pilots Row, 12noon - 4.00pm. Film Screening: A series of short 
programmes, including the 1969 broadcast of Panorama focussing on the 
Battle of the Bogside. 

Pilots Row, 2.00pm - 4.00pm. Update on the progress of the Bloody 
Sunday Inquiry. 

Gasyard Centre, 11.00am ­ 4.00pm. The Impact of the Article 2 
Judgement in the North. Organised by The Pat Finucane Centre.
This seminar will focus on the implications of the European Court of 
Human Rights Article 2 judgement of May 2001 in the case of Jordan, 
McKerr, Shanaghan, Kelly & others. The aim of the seminar is to 
provide a comprehensive update on the ongoing implications of the 
Article 2 judgement and will provide an opportunity for legal 
practitioners, NGOs and relatives to share information ideas and 
strategies. Advance registration only - limited spaces available. 

Calgach Centre, 7.30pm - 9.30pm. "The Truth about Truth
Commissions". Would a truth commission be a help or a hindrance to 
those bereaved or hurt by the conflict? Panel discussion organised by 
the Pat Finucane Centre. See press for details of speakers.

Solas Arts Centre, Gt James St, 8.30pm. Beidh an dara Oíche cheoil 
agus siamsaíochta Tír Chonaill/Doire a chur i láthair in
Ionad Ealaíne Solas, Mórshráid Shéamais, Dé Sathairn
31 Eanáir, ag tosnú ar a 8.30i.n. Beidh scaifte as Gaeltacht
Thír Chonaill ag teacht go Doire do mhórshiúl
chuimhneacháin Dhomhnach na Fola, idir Baill de Bhuíonta Cheoil
Rann na Feirste agus Gaoth Dobhair agus ceoltóirí agus
amhránaithe den scoith. Beidh Cór Cholmcille ag coinneáil
cuideachta leo ar an ardán. Beidh táille de £5 ar an doras
agus thig libh bhur gcuid dí féin a thabhairt isteach libh.
Bígí linn!

Once again as part of the Bloody Sunday Commemorative Weekend, 
singers and musicians from the Donegal Gaeltacht will join with 
friends from Derry, including Cór Cholmcille for a concert in
Solas Arts Centre.  Come along and enjoy a great evening's
entertainment.  Doors open at 8.30 p.m.  Admission £5.00, bring
your own.

Gasyard Centre, 9.00pm - till late. Bloody Sunday Weekend fundraiser, 
with Cruncher O'Neill, Decky McLaughlin, The Shambelles and others. 
Admission £5.00, bring your own. Organised by the Gasyard Wall
Féile.

Sunday 1 February

Bloody Sunday Monument, Rossville Street, 11.00am. Wreath laying 
service. Please join the families as they lay wreaths and offer 
prayers for those killed and injured. Creggan Shops, 2.30pm. 32nd 
Commemorative March and Rally.  Speakers from Sinn Féin and the
SDLP and a representative of the deceased and wounded. Soup and 
sandwiches will be available free in Sean Dolan's GAC, Creggan, 
before and after the march. Sandinos after the march. Soup, 
sandwiches, music and craic. Revolutionary tax £2.00. All proceeds
to the Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee. 

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AFGHANISTAN: CHRONOTOPIA 


CHRONOTOPIA is a photographic exhibition documenting Simon
Norfolk¹s 
personal vision of the war-ravaged landscape of Afghanistan.

The exhibition opened on 24 January 2004 and will end on 27 February 
2004 at Belfast Exposed, The Exchange Place, 23 Donegall Street, 
Belfast. Admission is free. 

Gallery opening times are: Mon-Fri 10.00 am to 5.00 pm and Sat 11.00 
am to 5.00 pm.  For more information, contact Belfast Exposed on tel: 
028 9023 0965 or website: http://www.belfastexposed.com/

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Grassroots Gathering - an alternative gathering of libertarian 
socialists, anarchists and activists of the direct action persuasion 
will take place in Cork at the beginning of March.  Further details 
on agenda/ venue soon.....

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Convention of the trade union left. Speakers include Billy Hayes, 
Mark Serwotka, Bob Crow, Paul Mackney and Geoff Martin. Saturday 7th 
Feb, 121 Merrow Street. Email tu_convention@yahoo.co.uk for more 
information. 

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