'H' Block fight goes on
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paedophiles as such and as The Thatcher government's refusal to ir nplement the agreement whi ch ended the 53-day hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners has been met by stubborn resistance from prisoners at Long Kesh. the fact that a mutually agreed They have been angered by programme to de-escalate the 'blanket' protests which have continued in the 'H' Blocks since 1976 has been breached by prison screws.
And 96 prisoners who had agreed to be moved to clean furnished cells as the first stage in an agreed settlement have smashed the furniture, fouled their cells, and rejoined their The trial is being used by the 300 comrades on the blanket.
There is now talk of a renewed hunger strike as the furious prisoners seek a means of forcing the implementation of the hard-won agreement which they believed had secured them their five demands and implicit recognition as political prisoners.
But the Tory about-turn has left the republican movement in a poor position to mount a renewed mass campaign.
Sections of the Provisionals have turned their backs on the broad support mobilised North and South of the border in the course of the hunger strikes, and reverted to a campaign of futile guerrilla attacks that will do nothing to drive_ British imperialism out of Ireland.
At the same time we oppose While it is correct and necessary for the Catholic minority to detend itselt, arms in hand, against Loyalist violence and the intimidation of the British army, isolated armed actions by republican fighters-no matter how well-intentioned-offer no way forward.
The fight must go on to mobilise the working class of both Britain and Ireland behind not only the struggle of the Long Kesh prisoners for political status but also behind the struggle to drive British troops out of the six counties, and open the way for the self determination of the irish people as a whole.
gotr demand information on the links between police in the two countries.
Messages of support were received from the Chile Solidarity Campaign, Troops Out Movement, Bradford Labour Movement Campaign for Palestinian Solidarity and Turkey Solidarity Campaign groups in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and Edinburgh.
The CDDRT are organising a "Rally against the trial of DISK trade unionists" on Tuesday 10