'h' Block Hunger Strikers: Don't Let Them Die!
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Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not H Blocks of the notorious H Blocks of the notorious camp this week began a camp this week began a hunger strike in support of munger strike in support of the long-running fight for the restoration of Prisoner of War status to republican prisoners.
They have been forced to this desperate course of action atter a • tour year 'blanket' protest by over 300 prisoners has failed either to force Labour and Tory governments to back dovn or to win the support of the British labour movement.
Deaf and blind
Labour and trade union leaders, often willing to denounce torture and repression elsewhere in the world, have remained deaf and blind to the struggle of the Irish people against British imperialist oppression-one of the sharpest points of which is the barbaric treatment of republican Continued page 2 Lane police station were iously absent.
They only appeared counter-attack had the on the retreat.
The lesson for the movement is clear. We rely on the police to del marches. Beltas: marchers s..
when a fascists cannot end our As me me: political rights prisoners escalates. prepared to detena against fascist attacks.
And we must deti Labour councillors ci enough to stand up anc press witch-hunts.
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