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DI ARDAOIN, 1 Imh AN DUDHLACHD. 19 9 THURSDAY, 11th DECEMBER, 1969 No. 71 Sixpence
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The south end of Loch Eck, with snow-capped Clach Ecinn in the background
BRETONS IN PARIS
Over 2000 Bretons gathered
in Paris last November to
attend the first public meeting
held by the Front for the Libe¬
ration of Brittany. The meeting
was the start of a campaign to
publicise the Breton tight for
cultural, political and economic
independence from France.
The programme of the Front
for the Liberation of Brittany
was drawn up in Rennes on
September 14, 1969, and is
supported by Sav Breizh,
Mouvement pour 1’Organisation
de la Bretagne, Breton Revolu¬
tionary Committee, the Breton
branches of the United Socialists
and Communist Party, the Bre¬
ton Students Movement, and
the following Trade Unions in
Brittany, Syndicats, Paysans,
CFDT, CGT, UNEF.
Until recently the FLB was
an organisation which was
blamed for the growing series
of bomb explosions in Brittany.
The French authorities moved
against FLB and 60 alleged
members were rounded up and
taken to jail. The occupations
of the prisoners ranged from
priests, journalists, soldiers,
farmers, architects, teachers,
technicians, clerks, factory wor¬
kers, doctors, accountants, rail¬
way workers etc.
The French were forced to
stop the arrests when they dis¬
covered they would have to
place at least 5 to 10,000
Bretons in prison. Also,
they found it impossible to
legally charge the imprisoned
Bretons. A series of hunger
strikes plus world opinion in¬
formed by the actions of people
in other Celtic countries (in-
by EVEN NEDELEC
eluding Scotland) and especially
by the League of Celtic Nations,
forced the French to release rfie
Bretons who were nine months
in jail without charge.
FLB was fighting against the
Establishment and the increasing
centralism of the French State.
FLB, he added, must also fight
against the Breton bourgeoise
who stood in the way of Breton
national awareness by the ordin¬
ary people.
FLB affirmed their belief m
action to prove to the world
that the Breton nation existed.
(Bretons cannot constitutionally
seek independence through
French party politics). Tremcl
promised that the FLB would
also study thoroughly the cul¬
tural and political problems of
the Breton situation. But, it was
stressed, that the idea cf
Breton independence must be
expressed through action as well
as words and must be orientated
by the will to serve the Breton
people. FLB would seek to edu¬
cate and gain the political par¬
ticipation of all Breton people.
P. Berresford Ellis, addressing
the meeting on the subject of
Celtic unity, told the Bretons
that the next ten years will be
the period in which there would
be a tremendous change in the
Celtic situation. Today it was
the ordinary people who were
reawakening to their oppression.
No longer was Celtic national¬
ism talked about by elite intel¬
lectuals or associated with
fanatics. Celtic nationalism was
part and parcel of the Celtic
peoples.
“ The first condition for the
survival of a small nation living
in the shadow of a large nation,
such as the Celtic peoples, is
complete political and economic
independence. The greater dis¬
parity in the size of the nations,
the greater becomes the need for
full independence. Full political
and economic independence are
indispensable to small nations.
Unless a nation has both of
these, ;t is inevitable that it
should fall under the domina¬
tion of its neighbour. If the
small nation has, for instance,
formal equality of political
status without its essential com¬
plement of economic independ¬
ence, then although freedom
may be ascribed to her in prin¬
ciple, she will not have it in
practice. Ireland, the so called
Republic, is the great example.’'
The Celtic struggle must be
to eliminate the exploitation of
nation by nation and, moreover,
the exploitation of man by man.
Mr Berresford Ellis dismissed
those who called for a federal
system of U.K. nations. “ For
many of us, there can be' no
federal system of government
for the nations in the United
Kingdom. The English majority
in any federal parliament would
ensure the continuance of the
English policy in world affairs.
(Continued on page 3)
Marighela, Nach
Maireann
B’ann am bade mor Sao
Paulo, Brasil, aig toiseach a’
mhios a chaidh, a thachair an
aimhreit ’s a mharhbadh
Carlos Marighela.
B’e taghadh a’cho-mhaoin-
ich e, duine bha ard garbh ’na
le Seumas Robasdan
phearsa, agus foghainteachd
is danadas air a shiubhal
Rugadh e ann an 1911 ann
an ceann-a-tuath Bhrasil. Tha
a’chearn sin cianail bochd
seach mar a tha aiteannan
eile san duthaich. B’e Eadail-
teach ’athair agus boirean-
nach dubh a mhathair.
Co-mhaoincach
Ghabh Marighela sa’phair
tidh cho-mhaoineach nuair
bha e sia blaidhna deug a
dh’aois. Bha Brasil fo smacl; J
aig Getulio Vargas aig an am
sin agus bha am Pairtidh a
mach as an lagh gun choth-
rom air an guth a thogail ann
an taghadh na parlamaid no
riaghladh na duthcha. Ach
bhasaich Vargas aig deireadh
an darna cogaidh mhoir agus
ghabh Marighela stigh dha’n
pharlamaid ’na riochdaire bho
Sao - Salvador - de - Bahia, am
baile san deach a bhreith is
arach.
Cha do sheas a shealbh
fada. An ceann da bhliadhna
chaidh am pairtidh Co-mhao-
ineach a chur a mach as an
lagh a rithis le hagaltas ur agus
b’eiginn do Mharighela ’s a
chuid chompanach an duth¬
aich a thoirt orra. B’ann fo
cheann fir Prestes —air an
tug iad “Ridire an Dochais”
mar far-ainm — a bha na co-
mhaoinich Bhrasilianach aig
an am sin. Cha d’fhuair am
Pairtidh cothrom air feuch-
ainn a stigh dha’n pharlamaid
bho’n a sin a mach, ach feadh
’sa bha Goulart ’na phresi-
dent p phionn deich bliadhna.
AV : j. doigh sin tha muinn-
tir Bhrasil an drasda cho
dona dheth ’sa bha iad riamh
fo Vargas.
Dheidheadh bonn a’Pnair-
tidh am broinn Bhrasil air
(Continued on page 9)
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