SOCIALISTS TO GATHER IN PROTEST AT CLINTON VISIT
Socialists to gather in protest at Clinton visit
By Seamus McKinney
THE Socialist Workers' Party has called for support for a number of pickets organised in protest at US president, Bill Clinton's visit to Ireland this week.
Protests have been planned at Derry's war memorial at the Diamond this Thursday at 12.30pm and at Belfast's Waterfront Hall at the same time. There are also plans for a march from the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin.
Calling for support for the demonstrations, a spokesman for the party said there was widespread uneasiness about the president's visit.
"This doesn't just have to do with Clinton having proved himself a liar over the Monica Lewinsky affair. The main point is that he is a hypocrite with regard to political violence.
"If we stand idly by as Clinton pretends he is opposed to atrocities such as the bombing of Omagh, we are colluding in his own no-warning bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan," he said.
The SWP spokesman said claims that President Clinton was a force for peace in Ireland should be rejected.
He said the mood for peace was created by opposition to further "futile violence".
By Seamus McKinney
THE Socialist Workers' Party has called for support for a number of pickets organised in protest at US president, Bill Clinton's visit to Ireland this week.
Protests have been planned at Derry's war memorial at the Diamond this Thursday at 12.30pm and at Belfast's Waterfront Hall at the same time. There are also plans for a march from the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin.
Calling for support for the demonstrations, a spokesman for the party said there was widespread uneasiness about the president's visit.
"This doesn't just have to do with Clinton having proved himself a liar over the Monica Lewinsky affair. The main point is that he is a hypocrite with regard to political violence.
"If we stand idly by as Clinton pretends he is opposed to atrocities such as the bombing of Omagh, we are colluding in his own no-warning bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan," he said.
The SWP spokesman said claims that President Clinton was a force for peace in Ireland should be rejected.
He said the mood for peace was created by opposition to further "futile violence".
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Publisher: THE IRISH NEWS
Ref: IN/0341
Published Date: 01-Sep-98
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