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NOEL JENKINSON ON THE 'PEACE' MOVEMENT

Red Weekly No. 170, 1976 · p. 11 of the scan · 625 words

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inen considered to be daneerously ghtered, Transport General Workers Union. When the civil rights movement started in the north of chairperson of the Such a record made him a 'natural' Aldershot Barracks were bombed in 1972 as a retaliation for 'Bloody Sunday'. He was later convicted of this bombing, an acusation which he This death comes at a very convenient time for many. For the British Governmen a means unar uney will broodol not have to face the Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, to which Noel was Dasis or wrongTU itself was a farce. gutter press based on items like a receipt from ar Aldershot shop which the police claimed found in Noel's flat. evicence was larer orovee to nave comt from the pocket of a Detective Chief InHis death will also put an end to the embarrassment of the Official Republican movement, who for the last two years ignored their former comrades case Last monn ne made. definitive break from the Officials when 'all volunteers, all died of 'natural' causes. But when you are framed, spend connnemens beaten up by prison screws and even prisoners, go on hunger STriKe las Noe cie a sorarty wIl Frank Stagg), when even some of your former friends desert you; when you do natural He was regime in the South.

The lack of peace is due solely and incontrovertibly to the fact that we as a people have been subjected to the most cruel and vicious attacks by foreign invaders. For eight centuries we have been slaustarved, sold into sla- remains.

very, exiled and divided by the rulers of a nearby country, not one of whose 50,000,000 population can be found to say: 'Yes I know, I took part in it."

On the contrary, they tell us they have sent their soldiers to make peace in our land. The same soldiers who presumably made peace in Palestine, Cyprus, Kenya, Aden, etc.. The same soldiers who summarily execute young children to help a peace movement get publicity in the Brit The plain fact is that there will be no peace in Ireland so long as now.

one foreign soldier remains. The NOEL and MARIE MURRAY face death as a result of their conviction for killing a pol iceman in the South. Noel has withdrawn his appeal as a result of the psychological and physical harassment that the campaign to stop the hangings has received. He now faces execution al any ume. Ine demonstration above in London on o october is part or tn growing campaign internationally to halt their deaths at the hands of the repressive people will only be at peace when the invaders are driven out. No body denies the absolute right of the Irish people to peace but nobody in Treland will have peace so long as any trace of Brit power The violence in Ireland today is imported counter revolutionary violence — it can only be destroy ed by revolutionary violence. Everybody wants peace - but not peace at any price — better to die on our feet than live on our knees.

The members of the Women's Peace Movement should clearly understand that support of their movement by the Brit press and bureaucracy will be very quickly followed by demands that they become informers on their own families. This is how they acted in the past and they will act similarly [From a letter to Republican News]

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