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She obviously drew back from yet another Oxford School occupation, building on the national support of the nursery occupation and eviction, with renewed threats of strike action from the public sector unions.

Exhibition

The demonstration ended in Bonn Square where the exhibition of the occupation attracted sympathetic interest from passers by who stopped to listen to speakers from the Trades Council and the nursery campaign.

They outlined the plans to lobby the TUC and the next meeting of the Education Committee.

The campaigners also plan to picket the South Oxford Nursery classroom if it is used for anything other than its proper purposethere have been plans drawn up to open it as a private nursery class.

The complete failure of the most barbaric and savage repression meted out over the last 10 years by British imperialism to crush the resistance of the Irish people was revealed clearly last Sunday by a huge 25,000 strong demonstration from Coalisland to Dungannon.

The march, led by 200 relatives of the internees in H Block of the notorious Long Kesh concentration camp, was a show of support for the two-year struggle by republican and socialist prisoners for the restoration of political status.

Hunger strike

Among the eous of these been 20-year Gallacher. most couragfighters has old Willie His 48-day hunger strike in support of the political status demand and against his frame-up for the bombing of a British Legion hall, was eventually ended last Tuesday as trade unions throughout Strabane responded to a Trades Council call for a two-hour stoppage in his support.

10th anniversary Gallacher's courageous fight has succeeded in bringing his case and the whole issue of Long Kesh brutality right into the Irish labour movement.

The demonstration marked the tenth anniversary of the original Civil Rights demonstration which had followed the same route.

But, coming at a time when workers North and South are coming into increasing conflict with British imperialism and its Irish bourgeois hangers-on, and at a time of increasing awareness in Britain of the issues of the Irish struggle, this latest movement has the opportunity to learn the lessons of previous protests and take forward the fight for the withdrawal of British troops and for self-determination of the Irish people.

Central to this fight must be a programme of demands on jobs, wages and democratic rights capable of mobilising the independent strength of the working class on both sides of the imperialist border in Ireland, and the struggle in Britain to remove the reactionary Labour leadership that has acted consistently in defence of British imperialism.

Prisoners Aid Committee Day of Solidarity with Irish POWs Sunday 26 November Details to be announced

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