"In the short term I intend very active within a very limited structure, that being the Nicky Kelly campaign calling for a public enquiry into the Sallins train thing. I hope to put all my energies, at this stage, into that. On the long term I don't know but I'm going to remain politically involved." 2. Estoppel is a legal term signifying being precluded from a particular course of action by previous action of one's own. In this case Kelly's prior 'confession' to the mail robbery is an obstacle to his law suit to get the state to clear his name. - IV 3. The Officials have now abandoned anti-imperialist policies and are called the Workers Party. They are reformists with a foreign родсу sympathetic to Moscow. They are lionised by the bourgeois media because of their hysterical anti-republicanism.
at. laws, obviously related to the continuous unemployment. trum of society who are going to suffer from the laws and this has to be seen as AROUND THE WORLD containment. bankrupt, totally bankrupt. It may come to the situation where the IMF may be dictating what our budget should be and the only way to prevent that would be the use of repressive laws. ably an over-simplification of it, but that probably makes sense to an extent of what's happening and what might happen First congress of Bloque Socialista in the coming years.
"But I think there's a greater reserve in Dominican Republic of people who are committed to real political and social change in this country. I get the impression, even when I was inside, that there was a certain amount of enthusiasm which wasn't there in the mid-seventies and possibly everybody was burned out or a bit fed up or cynical at certain situations."
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Kelly is also pursing his civil action against the state. "At the moment it is being taken first as a preliminary issue - estoppel. (2) It will be held before a rather than a jury, it'll decide whether my case can go ahead. I think they will go to any extreme to block it. I think they will see themselves with major difficulties before a jury. Also I would have no objection to a retrial, but that is highly unlikely."
Nicky Kelly is now 33. Arklow, he discovered Seamus Costello and politics. Costello led a split from the Official Republicans (3) in 1974 to form the IRSP. The new party seemed to send a shiver down the government's spine.
"I would say they would have obviously seen Costello as a threat, as a political threat in many ways. I've a terrible lot of respect for him. him, was about him, I didn't really understand him. It's unfortunate. He was on June 28/29/30 was one of the high points of the wide-ranging process of Dominican left has been engaged since the mid-1970s. The congress was opened by a report from the general secretary
"Fafa' Taveras, on the general political situation.
Many representatives of mass and revolutionary movements from throughout the world were present or sent their greetings to the congress. The delegates messages from, among others, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Palestine, as well as the LIT (International Workers League) of Puerto Rico and the LCR (Revolutionary Communist League) of the Dominican Republic, sympathising organisations of the Fourth International. Representatives of the Fourth International took their turn at the congress
Representatives of the Cuban Communist Party and the FSLN of Nicaragua were refused permission to enter the country by the Dominican authorities.
Before the Bloque Socialista congress other important congresses took place, such as Workers Party), and the Dominican Communist Party (PCD). These three events testify to the desire for unity expressed in the constitution of the FID (Dominican Left Front) on June 14, 1984 by the PCD, the PTD, the BS, the LCR, the Movement for Socialism and the Patriotic Anti-Imperialist Union.
The Bloque Socialista, the product of a fusion between the Workers Communist Nucleus and the Workers Socialist Movement, came out of a long process of coordination that had to overcome many difficulties, and which will have to overcome many others in the future. difficult path is intertwined with the struggles of the people and the workers. The BS is not only linked to the present stage of the class struggle but is, in addition and above all, a coming together of the history of revolutionary activity over more than three decades. dynamic of this first congress made it possible to overcome the different origins of the different components and to play a key role in a situation particularly impor tant for the revolutionary forces.
This situation is characterised by a rise in the popular movement, a strengthening of the unity of the revolutionary left, at the same time as the launching of a wave of repression and sharpening of contradictions within the governmental party, all in the context of the gravest economic crisis that the country has known. Moreover, the Dominican Republic is in the region of Central America and the Caribbean, under attack from the imperialists who are confronted with the rise of the popular movement and the strong desire of the revolutionary forces to advance united against the North American imperialists.
In this situation the BS congress char acterised the region as the weakest link in the imperialist chain, the internal situation in the country as pre-revolutionary, and talked of the imminence of the revolution. The BS newspaper Ofensiva concluded its report of the congress in the July 28 issue by stressing the following tasks:
achieving the highest possible level of collective work and political agreement within the organisation along the lines decided by the congress to make their political activity more effective;
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mountains, two passions, that composed of stones and rocks, and the revolution.
- adopting a more lively and determined attitude towards fighting for left unity by using all the possibilities that exist in the present situation for building the revolutionary forces;
increasing the role of the BS in the mass movement by promoting the political education, the organisation and the unity of the masses, which is an ongoing task that will make possible a higher level of organisation and unity in the mass movement.
Ofensiva concluded by these words: "In this way we will go forward in the certainty that the most important aspect of situation sustained advance of the mass movement
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