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The recent Sinn Fein Ard Fheis. Opponents of imperialism must obviously break British laws.

openly condemned * the WORKERS SOCIALIST Prominent in all this is repression in Ireland should Arthur Scargill's MP, Roy immediately be used in a Mason, who as an NUM- bid to shame the Labour Perspectives on Ireland sponsored MP acts as chief 'left' and British union Price 20p plus 10p p&p minister for torture in the leaders into taking up a North. serious fight on this issue, From WSL, 31, and fighting for the removal Dartmouth Park Hill, Jack Anderson, in an article syndicated to a number of US papers, declared that Britain was:

"trampling on the rights of Irish citizens in a manner reminiscent of Oliver Cromwell's iron-fisted rule more than three centuries ago."

Catholic leader British diplomatic staff were forced to respond to the article, which also quoted a Catholic leader who had compared:

"the horrors of H Block [Long Kesh) with the tiger cages of Vietnam, where American-trained South Vietnamese captors interrogated prisoners, or the North Vietnamese torture cells, whére American PoWs were brutally mistreated."

Anderson's article drew heavily on reports from two American capitalist politicians, Republican Hamilton Fish and Democrat Joshua Eilberg, who recently visited Britishoccupied Northern Ireland.

Both men agreed that Mason conditions in the Long Kesh concentration camp were "worse than Saigon 1968"

Such views are increasingly shared by prominent Irish Americans,' including leader: Tommy union Gleason, who recently proposed a black on British trade in solidarity with the struggle in the North for the full restoration of Prisoner of War status for republican prisoners.

The British ambassador, Peter Jay, hit back at these damaging statements with a press release alleging that the conditions at Long Kesh had been "self inflicted" by convicted murderers and bombers claiming that:

«Political status is not justified for criminals congovernment and its agents internationally are forced more and more often to reiterate such statements as increasing sections of the workers' movement and even capitalist politicians wake up to the fact that a war of national liberation is going on in the North of Oppressor Those that take up arms in the struggle for an end to national oppression must obviously stand in breach of PROTO: the "laws" drawn up by the imperialist oppressor nation.

Their fight-however misguided its tactics-is not. a criminal act but part of an entirely legitimate struggle for the right of the Irish people as a whole to determine their own future.

The criminal role is that played by the British Labour leaders who, in the most obscene coalition with the Tory Party and with Ulster Unionist politicians, have unleashed the full savagery of the British army on the Irish population in the six counties.

The fact that - US Congressmen from the two bourgeois parties have now of Callaghan's pro-imperialist cabinet.

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