Hospital for hunger
Socialist Press1981 1981-03-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 9 →
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THE HUNGER STRIKER POLITICAL STATUS NO TY As two more Irish republican prisoners joined the hunger strike at the Long Kesh camp in the North of Ireland, the first to begin, Bobby Sands, has been transferred to a prison hospital.
He has now been 3½ weeks without food in his struggle to NIEZALEZNYCH force a restoration of political status to the 400 republican prisoners currently in Long Kesh, and the women prisoners in Armagh Jail.
Yet once again, as with the previous hunger strike last sands the salidarity with anywhere but the British labour movement.
The Portuguese government has declared support; the French CGT union cónfedera040 63439 3740 VICTORY TO Polish strikers tion and Communist Party leader Marchais have backed the fight.
But in Britain union leaders, Labour leaders and Communist Party members have joined in a coordinated campaign of silence on the issue. In essence they support British imperialist rule in Ireland and will do nothing to support the liberation struggle.
Bobby Sands has not long to live-unless a movement is built in Britain to force the Thatcher government to concede the legitimate demand for political status.
Socialist Press readers must take up this fight in their union branches and Labour Parties.
Contingents must be mobilised for the national demonstration called for April 25 by the H Block Armagh (London) Committee, in London.