Cork SWP

Speaker :Eamon McCann
Victoria Hotel, Patrick St.
Mon Aug 14th 8PM

The shooting dead of 13 unarmed civilians in Derry during a Civil rights Demonstration in Derry, January 1972 was a decisive event in the history of the North. Unlike all the other atrocities in Northern Ireland, it took place in broad daylight with hundreds of witnesses. The people of Derry know what happened on Bloody Sunday. They saw it! Yet to this day, the British Government has never come clean on responsibility for the mass murder, or charged any of the British Paratroopers involved in connectionwith it.The lack of accountability of so called democratic Governments is still evident today, against the wishes of the people. the US/Israel and Britain are waging a horrific war against the people of the Middle East. The lack of accountability in the so called "War on Terror" is best demonstrated in the illegal detentions of in Guantanamo Bay.

Eamonn McCann has been an active socialist for four decades and was one of the original organisers of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). He is a member of Derry Trades Council and the Bloody Sunday Trust. He personally witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday in January 1972, and has written and campaigned extensively with the relatives of Bloody Sunday victims for truth on what happened on Bloody Sunday to be published. Eamonn is a prominent member of the Socialist Workers Party, and in recent NorthernIreland elections has stood as a candidate for the Socialist Environmental Alliance.