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Pearse McKenna – Laoch ar Lar. An Appreciation
Remembering a dedicated T&GWU activist, internationalist and anti-sectarian
MAN OF PRINCIPLE: Pearse McKenna pictured on May Day 2016
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A REAL hero of the trade union, labour and socialist movement has left us. Pearse McKenna, a bakery worker from the Falls Road in Belfast, became an activist in the Transport and General Workers Union and fought in numerous campaigns on behalf of the workers.
He was targeted for assassination by the pro-empire Ulster Freedom Fighters in 1991 because of his active intervention in the Ormeau Bakery in South Belfast, to secure a neutral, non-partisan workplace, in pursuit of the policy of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), in this case free of Orange and loyalist flags and bunting.
Pearse was seriously injured. Thankfully another one of the bullets missed, grazing his head, after McKenna dived for shelter under a bakery lorry outside of his workplace where he was shop steward.
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