{"id":1028,"date":"2022-01-31T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:07:36","slug":"remembering-bloody-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Bloody Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sunday 30 January 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the massacre by the British Army of 14 innocent people in Derry.\u00a0 The BBC and RTE completely ignored a large commemorative march in Derry, addressed by among others former Westminster MP Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and civil rights activist Eamonn McCann who were on the original peaceful march in 1972 and were fired on by the British soldiers.\u00a0 Below we publish a report on the march by Irish revolutionary socialist John Meehan, from the Irish political blog <a href=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.com\/\">Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Flatharta<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Monday 31 January 1972, the day after the march, in the British House of Commons Bernadette Devlin (now McAliskey) then the independent socialist MP for Mid-Ulster, tried to challenge the lies of the Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maudling for twice claiming that it was the marchers who had fired on the British soldiers of the Paratroop Regiment &#8211; rather than the other way round.\u00a0 She was denied the opportunity to speak and berated for trying to tell the truth &#8211; that a British minister was a liar.\u00a0 Bernadette famously walked across the chamber and slapped Maudling on the face as a &#8220;proletarian protest&#8221;. against his lies\u00a0 Bernadette later said she regretted she had not got him by the throat.\u00a0 We reproduce a link to an interview with Bernadette on that day explaining why she did it.\u00a0 \u00a0It took several decades and an independent inquiry before it was finally confirmed that those shot by the British soldiers were entirely innocent, and that Maudling had lied to the House of Commons &#8211; but we don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll be the last British minister to be found out as a liar!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><em>Irish revolutionary socialist organisation Socialist Democracy is holding an online meeting on the politics of the last 100 years of the Partition of Ireland, with John McAnulty speaking &#8211; <strong>Tuesday 1 February 2022 19.00 7pm London\/Dublin time<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/socialistdemocracy.org\/RecentArticles\/DiscussionIreland100YearsOfPartitionCarnivalOfReaction.html\">http:\/\/socialistdemocracy.org\/RecentArticles\/DiscussionIreland100YearsOfPartitionCarnivalOfReaction.html<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>The feedback I got all week, writes <a href=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.com\/2022\/01\/30\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\/\">Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Flatharta<\/a> , was that the 2022 Bloody Sunday March in Derry today (Sunday 30 January 2022) would be huge. This turned out to be true. An initial report is below.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the intriguing bit. The mass media (e.g. RT\u00c9 Radio Bulletin this morning at 8.00am) reported lots of other stuff \u2013 for example, Dublin government taoiseach M\u00edche\u00e1l Martin laying a wreath \u2013 and said nothing about the march this afternoon at 2.30pm in Derry featuring speeches by Bernadette McAliskey, \u00c9amonn McCann, and others. RT\u00c9 is a public service broadcaster in Ireland largely funded by a license fee. It comes under pressure from the \u201cgreat and the good\u201d to toe the line and exclude radical voices. And sometimes it gets things spectacularly wrong \u2013 today was an example.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">What is the key political message today : Prosecute the Generals!We will keep fighting \u2013 and, eventually, we might win. If we don\u2019t fight, we definitely lose.<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\" data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:18062418,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tomasoflatharta.com\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/30\\\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\\\/&quot;}\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4217\" src=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2691.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4217\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.com\/2022\/01\/30\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\/img_2691\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2691.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,558\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_2691\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2691.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2691.jpg?w=700\" data-id=\"4217\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4220\" src=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2689.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4220\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.com\/2022\/01\/30\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\/img_2689\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2689.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,922\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_2689\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2689.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2689.jpg?w=700\" data-id=\"4220\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2690.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Derry Bloody Sunday March 2022; Irish Soccer Player from Derry, James McClean, wears a black 14 armband; Craigavon 2 Campaigners on the Derry March; Derry Trades Council on the 2022 March (main picture)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is very similar to what happened on the day of the 2016 100th anniversary monster parade in Dublin supporting the 1916 Rising \u2013 the Irish establishment media disgraced itself reporting on tiny religious ceremonies in Ballygobackwards and the like. It ignored tens of thousands on Dublin streets participating in a colourful parade.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4221\" src=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg?w=1024\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg 1944w\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.com\/2022\/01\/30\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\/img_0853\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1944,1296\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0853\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_0853.jpg?w=700\" \/><figcaption>Limerick Soviet Banner Carried on April 2016 Commemoration of the Irish 1916 Easter Rising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>The weather did not stop the people of Derry as thousands took part in the March for Justice on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>British Army Paratroopers shot dead 13 and wounded 14 civilians during a civil rights march on Sunday, January 30, 1972. A 14th person died later from his injuries.<br \/>\nPeople from all over the island and beyond took to the streets of Derry, leaving Creggan at 2:15 this afternoon and marching peacefully through the streets of Derry finishing at Free Derry Corner.<br \/>\nThe route retraces the original route of the civil rights march 50 years ago in 1972. Many held signs demanding justice from the British Government for those who lost their lives.<br \/>\nWhen the crowds returned to the Bogside, there was a rally at Free Derry corner with Bernadette McAliskey, n\u00e9e Devlin, and well-known civil rights campaigner Eamonn McCann among the speakers.<br \/>\nIrish civil rights leader, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, gave a powerful speech to the crowd, \u201cPeople walk this road every year, there has to be another generation of people, like the young people here,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m so glad to see so many young faces here. One thing that is certain, Bloody Sunday will never be forgotten.<br \/>\n\u201cAgain, as we have done every year, reminding people that Bloody Sunday was not just about the people who were killed, not just about the city and it was not just the first of many killings that broke our hearts for thirty years, this was different.<br \/>\n\u201cThis was a day when the British Government policy which had started weeks and months before, came to fruition on the street.<br \/>\n\u201cInternment was introduced to try and break the people. They have responded with more marches and strikes. People tend to forget history, but nowhere in the six counties has forgotten.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was that kind of mass action that the British Government was afraid of. They were afraid of the marches as a result.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is the same today, what they are afraid of is this here. They are not afraid of the lone gunman, they are not afraid of the sniper, they are not afraid of the secret army. They can infiltrate, they recruit agents out of them.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat they are afraid of is this here. Masses of people who won\u2019t quit. People who will tell their children and their grandchildren.<br \/>\n\u201cIf I don\u2019t see the British Government in the dock, my children, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren will see them in it some day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.derrynow.com\/news\/derry-news\/732173\/one-thing-that-is-certain-bloody-sunday-will-never-be-forgotten.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR0IYJ29T5Ft62ic8HG6lViFyLgjN6Bh2szGupNNu0feG-J4t6KDtg2QrLY\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.derrynow.com\/news\/derry-news\/732173\/one-thing-that-is-certain-bloody-sunday-will-never-be-forgotten.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR0IYJ29T5Ft62ic8HG6lViFyLgjN6Bh2szGupNNu0feG-J4t6KDtg2QrLY<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:18062418,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tomasoflatharta.com\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/30\\\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\\\/&quot;}\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4222 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2685.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"4222\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.com\/2022\/01\/30\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\/img_2685\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2685.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1548867045&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_2685\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2685.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomasoflatharta.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/img_2685.jpg?w=700\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\" data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:18062418,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tomasoflatharta.com\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/30\\\/thousands-took-to-the-streets-to-march-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-derrynow-report\\\/&quot;}\">\n<p>The establishment media has not said too much about a general strike which swept across Ireland because of Derry\u2019s Bloody Sunday \u2013 resulting in the burning\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/wpcom-smileys\/twemoji\/2\/svg\/1f525.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd25\" \/>\u00a0of Dublin\u2019s British Embassy on Wednesday February 2 1972. Listen to a fascinating account by historian Brian Hanly here :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftarchive.ie\/podcast\/35-bloody-sunday-reactions-in-the-republic-of-ireland\/?fbclid=IwAR2Z1LOUr9K5oSTq3iYaDfsEpJLGazkTCSawrRssOHyXy8B1OqA7gq6hxXo\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.leftarchive.ie\/podcast\/35-bloody-sunday-reactions-in-the-republic-of-ireland\/?fbclid=IwAR2Z1LOUr9K5oSTq3iYaDfsEpJLGazkTCSawrRssOHyXy8B1OqA7gq6hxXo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In summary, let us record : In 1972 the Dublin Government caught up with the public mood across Ireland and declared a \u201cNational Day of Mourning\u201d on the day of the funeral for the 13 civilians murdered by the British Army Paratroop Regiment on Derry\u2019s Bloody Sunday. A general strike swept across Ireland, giving a mandate to people on a huge march \u2013 Called by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions \u2013 who burned the British Embassy to ashes. Wednesday February 2 1972 \u2013 A day to be proud of a Risen People in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Meehan January 30 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Bernadette Devlin delivers a proletarian protest\u00a0 on Monday 31 January 1972<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3EKx0wOFQP8\">Bernadette Devlin delivers a proletarian protest (31\/01\/1972) &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3EKx0wOFQP8\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1032 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Bernadette-Devlin-YouTube-500x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Bernadette-Devlin-YouTube-500x289.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Bernadette-Devlin-YouTube-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Bernadette-Devlin-YouTube.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernadette Devlin McAliskey won two parliamentary elections in Mid-Ulster as &#8220;Unity&#8221; and an Independent Socialist.\u00a0 She took her seat in the House of Commons, unlike the abstentionist wing of the Republican Movement, and used it as a platform across the British Isles to stand up for workers&#8217; rights.\u00a0 She lost her seat in 1974 when the Social Democratic &amp; Labour Party stood against her and handed the seat to a conservative Unionist.\u00a0 She survived an assassination attempt by loyalist paramilitaries.\u00a0 Bernadette went on to stand in Dublin for the Irish Parliament (D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann) as a candidate of the Irish section of the Fourth International and she still speaks at revolutionary socialist meetings to this day &#8211; here is her speech on the 100th anniversary of the Irish Easter Rising to a <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistresistance.org\/bernadette-mcaliskey-and-ken-loach-mark-easter-1916-rising\/8199\">meeting of British Fourth International supporters<\/a> in 2016 in London:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J9QCArSU3-g\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/J9QCArSU3-g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1028&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1028&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 30 January 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the massacre by the British Army&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,49],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-news","category-irish-news","tag-ireland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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