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wear prison uniform or do prison work are locked up for 24 hours a day wearing only a blanket, in a cell with only a damp mattress, are denied reading and writing materials, and are subject to body searches including probing the anus.

The NEC is implacably opposed to the programme and methods of terrorism. Equally however we are opposed to repression and torture in the prisons of Northern Ireland. Such repression could, under certain circumstances, be perfected for possible use against the Labour movement in Britain in the future.

The NEC therefore calls for consideration to be given to the following points:

1) The right of all prisoners to wear their own clothes.

2) Prisoners to be allowed full access to newspapers, 1V! books and writing materials with no restriction on letters.

3) Prisoners to be allowed a minimum of two unsupervised visits and two food parcels per week.

4) Prisoners to have the right to negotiate choice of work, training and education facilities.

5) Prisoners to be paid trade union rates of pay and the right to trade union membership.

6) Prisoners to be allowed to elect their own representatives to negotiate on their behalf.

7) Scrapping the non-jury Diplock courts and the closure of the special police interrogation centres.

The NEC opposes all forms of repression in Northern Ireland and calls for the repeal of repressive legislation.

The NEC asks the Northern Ireland Study Group and the Human Rights Sub-Committee to look at the question of repression and prison conditions and include a section on it in Dea Fourte WHELAN 12 YEARS H Block prisoners su Dinils "Council of the Assembly with some token delaying or blocking powers.

since only a 50% plus one majority would be needed to rubber-stamp Executive proposals under such a scheme, the SDLP leaders recognise that they would be completely marginalised and impotent on any policy decisions.

Their refusal to reject this plan clearly flows from the attractive power of large numbers of comfortable posts available for all concerned. But they recognise that it will be a hard task to convince their Catholic electorate that the plan KN Only within a united Irish workers' republic can sectarian discrimination be eradicated on the basis of improving the living standards of the working class as a whole. .

While republicans and socialists take up the fight in Ireland itself, it falls upon socialists in the British labour movement to lend tangible support to their This means fighting against the prevailing , "bi-partisan" line of trade union and Labour leaders and for the immediate and the right of the irish people withdrawal Hritich as a whole to determine their own future.

DON BOSCO

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