Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:08 AM Subject: Ireland: Sinn Fein Leader To Visit Cuba - Daily Telegraph From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 02:14:51 +0100 To: "Peoples War" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Ireland: Sinn Fein Leader To Visit Cuba - Daily Telegraph Adams set to anger US with visit to Cuba ============================ Daily Telegraph (Filed: 15/08/2001) Until now, Sinn Fein's support for Castro's regime has been played down, says David Sharrock GERRY ADAMS, the Sinn Fein president, plans to visit Cuba next month in a move that will further damage the special relationship between the republican movement and the White House. Details of Mr Adams's visit to the communist Caribbean state, where he will meet President Castro, first emerged on Monday when it was announced that he was embarking on a tour of South America at the end of this month. No details were given of the countries he would visit except that he would fly to Cuba. In the spring of this year he was expected to visit Castro, but the trip was cancelled. Sinn Fein has long been a supporter of Castro's regime, although its enthusiasm for the Soviet-style country has been played down in recent years for fear of upsetting the party's friends in the White House under President Clinton. The fact that Mr Adams has now decided to go ahead with the visit in the face of certain disapproval from President Bush suggests that this Irish-American relationship is beginning to cool. President Bush will be furious that the military arm of a party which continues to receive not just political but extensive financial support from America is sharing terrorist tradecraft with a sworn enemy. Castro spoke out in support of the IRA hunger strikers in 1981 and it is known that Mr Adams is keen to thank the Cuban president during the 20th anniversary of that event. In September 1981, Castro caused a walkout by the British and American delegations to the 63rd conference of the Interparliamentary Union in Havana when he made a speech strongly supporting the hunger strikers. Castro said: "We cannot ignore what is happening in Northern Ireland. I feel it is my duty to refer to this problem. In my opinion, Irish patriots are writing one of the most heroic chapters in human history." An Phoblacht, the republican movement's official newspaper, has been an outspoken critic of "US imperialism" and Washington's decades-long trade embargo of Cuba. When President Reagan used a St Patrick's Day speech to attack the Provisionals, Mr Adams said: "It is President Reagan whose administration finances international terrorism and destabilises democratically elected governments." In January 1989, a US Defence Intelligence Agency document listed the Provisional IRA as one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups, naming Mr Adams and Martin McGuinness, the Mid Ulster MP and Stormont education minister, as its leaders. A Pentagon offical said at the time: "As far as we're concerned there is no distinction between the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein." During the 1991 Gulf War Mr Adams publicly attacked the first President Bush, the present White House incumbent's father, criticising the "hypocrisy of those who, while condemning the armed struggle of the IRA, support the use of wholesale violence against the Iraqi people". While in Cuba Mr Adams may visit Calle O'Reilly in Havana's old Spanish colonial quarter, where a plaque on a wall reads, in Spanish, Gaelic and English: "Two island nations on the same sea of hope and struggle, Cuba and Ireland." © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2001. Terms & Conditions of reading. Commercial information. Privacy Policy. "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
