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alongside the bakers.

Firm call

Maddox has issued a firm call in a letter to every striker, urging solidarity and renewed efforts to force the employers to their knees:

"Ten thousand times has the trade union movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again, to be seized by the throat and choked into insensibility: enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by military powers, shot down by regulars, discriminated against by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, repudiated by renegades, preyed upon by Published by Folrose Ltd Printed by Anvil Printers In a massive show of opposition to the British military occupation of Ireland, thousands of. demonstrators marched last week through the streets of London, while thousands more defied a government ban to join a similar march in Armagh city.

The marches centred on the demands for the restoration of political status to Irish republican prisoners of war and for the withdrawal of British troops. or the Workers Socialist League, 3 U), London. Registered as a newsi During the same weekend the deputy governor of the notorious Long Kesh concentration camp and top screw in charge of H' Block-in which over 300 republican and socialist prisoners are being subjected to barbaric torture-was killed by IRA gunmen.

These events; coupled with a renewed bombing campaign in the six counties have brought home clearly the fact that the war of liberation in Ireland is very much alive.

The London demonstration, called by the Prisoners Aid Committee, was dartmouth Park Hill, London NW er at the Post Office. last such mobilisation on 9 July of this year.

But there was still a marked shortage of banners from the organised labour movement.

The fight against British repression in Ireland is clearly still not being taken up within the unions by many of the left groups who mobilised their own members for the demonstration.

Without such a turn, the propsect of materially affecting the reactionary stance of the Labour leaders and assisting the fight to force ..a withdrawal of is minimal.

With this in mind, the WSL contingent carried placards and shouted slogans directed at the need to fight British imperialism in Ireland by fighting for the removal of torture chief Roy Mason and the Labour In this way the necessary fight for the restoration of political status and for the self-determination of the Irish people can be seen in its' proper connection with the struggle for a revolutionary leadership in the British working class.

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