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Support Hunger Strikers

Socialist Press no. 242, 9 April 1981 · scan p. 12 · about 281 words

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Newry demonstration backs hunger striker politically to determine their within the British labour own future runs alongside movement for resolutions, the struggle of the British demonstrations and for working class against the • imperialist war effort and Thatcher government: 'Irish force the immediate withprisoners not only moral but drawal of British troops material support in their from Ireland..

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By Thursday April 9, the day our paper is published, Bobby Sands will have been 40 days on hunger strike in the 'H' Block of Long Kesh.

And he will be seeking to "borrow" the votes of the electors of Fermanagh and South Tyrone by standing as an "Anti-H Block/Armagh" political prisoner candidate, against a Loyalse vanuan. His campaign-backed by I aralist nandirate hunger strikes by three fellow republican prisonersis for the restoration of political prisoner status to İrish prisoners of war.

Sands' hunger strike, unlike the 53-day hunger strike by 7 Long Kesh men last winter; has been convs of the Workers Socialist League. sciously and systematically kept out of the British press.

And it has been ignored by British trade union and Labour leaders who tacitly or openly support the continuation of British imperialist rule over the six counties of Northern Ireland, and the battery of state repression needed to uphold such domination.

Alongside Yet the struggle by the struggle. Irish people for the right We evewRy SUPPORTS THE HUNGER STRIKERS This means waging a fight After a very slow start to the campaign in Britain, at last a national demonstration has been called in London for Sunday April 26.

We urge readers to fight for maximum delegations from Labour Parties and

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 242, 9 April 1981