Speakers at the rally reflected the breadth of the Anti- Internment Coalition, which called the action. Among those addressing the crowd were: Mary Cotter of the Irish Republican Clubs of the U.S. and Canada; Larry McElroy from the Barmen's and Waitresses' Association for Irish Aid; Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.); Ned Murphy of the Harrisburg Defense Committee; Andrew Pulley, vice- presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party; Carlos Feliciano; Katherine Sojourner of the National Peace action Coalition; Joan McKiernan of the International Socialists; Congressman James Scheuer (D-N.Y.); and John Rowan of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kevin McCrory, a former internee and a representative of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, also spoke.

Several speakers related the movement in Ireland to other movements for national liberation around the world. Andrew Pulley drew cheers from the crowds when he noted that the struggle in Ireland was the longest continuous struggle against oppression in history and expressed the solidarity of the SWP with the Irish liberation struggle.

March 15, 1947
While the future of Europe is being debated by the "Big Four" Foreign Ministers in Moscow, with little likelihood that their conference will produce agreements that can restore political and economic stability in Europe, virtually the entire continent of Asia and her adjoining islands have entered a stage of crisis which may in the end yield even greater headaches for world imperialism than the European question.

Equally important has been the rapidity with which the Japanese workers have organized a huge trade union movement, reported to include as many as five million members; their militancy and solidarity against the employers; the radical and far-reaching nature of their demands and slogans - including a sliding scale of wages, variants of workers' control of production, union defense guards, etc. - which tend to bring them into conflict not only with the employers but with the government and the occupation forces as well.

China, according to Wall Street's timetable was supposed to be ready for large-scale economic exploitation by the beginning of this year. Instead, the country has been caught in an inflationary spiral and its economy is as helpless as a leaf in the wind.  
 
 
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