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CONFIDENTIAL
DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE BRITISH
CONSULATE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
DECEMBER 21 - 22, 1973
On January 17, 1974, PH T-4 made available a
five page document entitled,
"The Liam Mellows Irish
Repubiican Club Newsletter", mimeographed by the
Liam Mellows I.R.C.
This. newsletter, on page two,
contains an article captioned, "what We Are About":
(U)
which is as follows:
"The Liam Mellows Irish Republican Club
is a new formation in the Kensington section
of Philadelphia. 1
Founded by former Kensington:
members of the James Larkin IRC and others who
see the need to organize support for the
(official) Irish Repubiican Movement in Ire-
land, the Liam Mellows IRC has its own char-
acter and plan of work characteristic of this
working-class neighborhood.
'"Kensington has a long history of working-
class struggle, but thoroughly isolated now,
even the New Left is into maintaining the
status quo here. The Liam Meliows IRc derive
its right to exist and its abiiity to functioh
only by virtue of its membership in a nation
wide organization with direct ties to Irelang
Thus the struggle in Ireland becomes our
struggle.
1
tic adventurists.
We are not the financiere
or
architects of the Irish revolution.
We are
'not a bunch.of psychopaths"who'sit around
inforcing each other. {
We are not sectarian
(in the American sense) but working-class
in
the working-class sense).
There is not a
fell
of a lot that we can do - we have enough p
phob-
lems of our own right here! Racism,in thel
USA
is not different from sectarianism
in Ireland,
and workers everywnere are fast reaiizing
Hthat
Imperialism is aimed at.swindling-the entgre
working-class: Black, White, Protestant,
Catholic, Conmunist and Independent. 2henbfore
we see what little we do to be the most
e-
volutionary thing we can be doing.
We sge the
growth and development of the Irish Repupiican
Clubs of USA and Canada to be a'clear-cuft
working-class struggle - and so does thg
enemy!
The plight of the Liam Mellows IRC is np
ac-
cident, nor is it unusual; it is our dbnscious-
ness of cowardly indifference to political
CONFIDENTIAL
3_
DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE BRITISH
CONSULATE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
DECEMBER 21 - 22, 1973
On January 17, 1974, PH T-4 made available a
five page document entitled,
"The Liam Mellows Irish
Repubiican Club Newsletter", mimeographed by the
Liam Mellows I.R.C.
This. newsletter, on page two,
contains an article captioned, "what We Are About":
(U)
which is as follows:
"The Liam Mellows Irish Republican Club
is a new formation in the Kensington section
of Philadelphia. 1
Founded by former Kensington:
members of the James Larkin IRC and others who
see the need to organize support for the
(official) Irish Repubiican Movement in Ire-
land, the Liam Mellows IRC has its own char-
acter and plan of work characteristic of this
working-class neighborhood.
'"Kensington has a long history of working-
class struggle, but thoroughly isolated now,
even the New Left is into maintaining the
status quo here. The Liam Meliows IRc derive
its right to exist and its abiiity to functioh
only by virtue of its membership in a nation
wide organization with direct ties to Irelang
Thus the struggle in Ireland becomes our
struggle.
1
tic adventurists.
We are not the financiere
or
architects of the Irish revolution.
We are
'not a bunch.of psychopaths"who'sit around
inforcing each other. {
We are not sectarian
(in the American sense) but working-class
in
the working-class sense).
There is not a
fell
of a lot that we can do - we have enough p
phob-
lems of our own right here! Racism,in thel
USA
is not different from sectarianism
in Ireland,
and workers everywnere are fast reaiizing
Hthat
Imperialism is aimed at.swindling-the entgre
working-class: Black, White, Protestant,
Catholic, Conmunist and Independent. 2henbfore
we see what little we do to be the most
e-
volutionary thing we can be doing.
We sge the
growth and development of the Irish Repupiican
Clubs of USA and Canada to be a'clear-cuft
working-class struggle - and so does thg
enemy!
The plight of the Liam Mellows IRC is np
ac-
cident, nor is it unusual; it is our dbnscious-
ness of cowardly indifference to political
CONFIDENTIAL
3_