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backed by a large British troops. he writes:

However, only three days later a protest. demonstra- with a belated bourgeois tion of 10,000 marched development especially the through Andersonstown.

In 'H' Block of Long countries, the theory of Kesh concentration camp, the permanent revolution 330 republican and socialist signifies that the complete prisoners are demanding and genuine solution of political recognition by their tasks of achieving refusing to wear prison democracy and national uniforms which their emancipation is conceivable present "criminal" status only through the dictatordemands. ship of the proletariat as the They are being held leader of the subjugated naked except for a blanket nation, above all of its ("on the blanket"') without peasant masses" heating, letters, visits or reading matter; while their League recognises its clear • women comrades at Armagh revolutionary obligations to are held in solitary confine- support the national ment for pressing the same struggle against British demand.

80% of these prisoners imperialism, while fighting within it for the leading role are being held on the of the organised working strength of a statement without further evidence, extracted by torture, and sentenced by one judge without recourse to a jury.

Reality hidden Predictably, • the everservile bourgeois press prevents any real reportage of such issues so that the reality of capitalist repression is hidden from the British working class who will face the same methods in the escalating struggle.

As Trotsky wrote in the Transitional Programme:

"Democratic slogans, transitional demands and the problem of the socialist revolution are not divided into separate historical epochs in this struggle, but stem directly from one another" In Permanent Revolution gramme culminating in the overthrow of capitalism "With regard to countries North and South and the establishment of a workers republic. colonial and semi-colonial Imperialist oppression of Ireland must be fought inside all organisations of the labour movement. The Prisoners' Aid Committee has called a national rally on Sunday 9 July at 2.30pm at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park.

The WSL urges all labour movement bodies to mobilise maximum support to this march around the demands:

The Workers Socialist *Prisoner of war status for Republican and socialist prisoners as guaranteed by the Geneva Convention! *Troops out now! *Self determination för the Irish people!

class around a socialist pro-Imperialist troops in action