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e l m е- a- is ty on al- he ti- in- en mal The Communist and Workers' Parties have the honourable tradition of having adhered to the revolutionary stand and fought in solid unity under the banner of proletarian inter- nationalism. By carrying forward this tradition, all the socialist countries and Communist and Workers' Parties must hold fast to the anti-imperialist stand and unite rock-solid, based on the relations of comradeship, the relations of respect- ing and cooperating with each other against national egoism. Modern imperialism is not only the enemy of socialism but also the common enemy of all the progressive people of the world who advocate peace and Chajusong. It is only when the people of socialist countries and all the other progressive people of the world who advocate peace and Chajusong are solidly united that they can emerge victorious in the struggle for independence against imperialism. The progressive people of the world must smash every manoeuvre of the imperialists for division and alienation and unite firmly under the banner of independence against imperialism, regardless of ideology, system and religious belief. There is no doubt that if all the anti-imperialist, in- dependent forces in the world fight as one in firm unity, they will be able to destroy imperialism and create an independent, new world. Our Party will make every effort to strengthen solidarity with the anti-imperialist, independent forces of the world, particularly the socialist countries, the international com- munist movement and the non-aligned movement. The struggle of our people, who are advancing at the forefront of the struggle for independence against imperialism under the revolutionary banner of the Juche idea, is a source of great encouragement to the progressive people of the world 27

in their struggle for Chajusong. We must take due pride in this. Revolutionaries must fight on resolutely, always re- membering the lessons of history as well as being confident in the future. There still remain the imperialists who brutally massacred and plundered our people in the past and are now watching for a chance to commit further acts of aggression. In this situation it would be a grave mistake to assume that our struggle to create an independent, new life will be plain sailing. Just as today's happy, new, socialist life has been provided for us through the arduous and bloody struggle of our revolutionary predecessors and patriotic people, so the complete victory of socialism and the eventual triumph of our revolution can be won only through our people's indomitable struggle against imperialism. Our Party has been entrusted with a noble historic mission to lead our revolution to victory in the present complicated circumstances. All Party members and other working people must march forward dynamically along the road of socialism and communism, solidly united behind the great leader and the Party, under the unfurled revolutionary banner of the anti-imperialist struggle.

Sinn Fein Ard Fheis 1985 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Gerry Adams

PREAS-RÁITEAS Óráid an Uachtaráin Teach an Ard-Fheis, 1985 Sinn Féin ARD-FHEIS, '85 Mansion House, Dublin, Sunday 3rd November 1985

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Óráid an Uachtarán Gearoid Mac Ádhaimh MP don 81ú Ard Fheis de Shinn Féin, Presidential address by Gerry Adams MP to the 81st Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, Teach an Árd-Mhéara, Baile Atha Cliath, Domhnach 3ú Samhain 1985 Mansion House, Dublin, Sunday 3rd November 1985

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ON THE DAY before he was executed, South African freedom fighter, Benjamin Moloise, during a last visit by his mother, said: "Tell the world freedom is at hand." The following day he was hanged and, against the background of daily news reports of black people, some of them children, being murdered by the terrorists of South Africa's apartheid regime, Thatcher succeeded in preventing the imposition of sanct- ions against Botha's administration and the British Foreign Secretary called on the African National Congress to re- nounce violence. Thatcher was accused of being 'renounce violence'. We stand the only apologist Dr Botha can shoulder to shoulder with them depend on in the outside world. in their right to develop their She is not. The Dublin govern- struggle by whatever methods ment also refused to impose are forced upon them. We call sanctions. In the first six months upon those responsible for vio- of this year, imports to the lence to renounce its use. We twenty-six counties from South condemn apartheid as immoral. Africa and Namibia totalled We condemn Dublin's refusal over £10 million. Winnie Mandela to enforce immediate and total correctly described the British sanctions and we congratulate government's attitude as an the Dunnes Stores strikers. To insult to her country's black the ANC, we extend our uncon- majority. The Dublin govern- ditional solidarity. To our black ment's attitude on this issue brothers and sisters in struggle is not only an insult to the black we send this simple message majority of South Africa, it is an of support: "Fight on!" insult to the Irish people whose feelings are epitomised by the cou- It is no accident that the Dublin rageous Dunnes Stores strikers. government finds common ground The Dublin government's atti- with Thatcher and Reagan in their tude is disgraceful. Indeed, I attitude to liberation struggles. Dub- have no doubt that Nelson Man- lin's attitude on these issues is but dela, if he were in Portlaoise, an extension of its attitude to the would be speedily extradited by British presence in this country. FitzGerald and his cohorts. The natural and logical place for Ireland is alongside the Palestinians, the Chileans, El Salvadoreans and Nicaraguans. A government which S truly represented the Irish people INN Fein's attitude is would be in opposition to Reagan's straightforward and well- backing of repressive regimes in known. We do not hypo- Central America, in opposition to critically call upon the ANC to Israel's policy of genocide against the Palestinian people, and in oppos- 1