Victory to the Hunger Strikes!
Socialist Press1981 1981-06-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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SUPPORT THE IRISH PRISONERS' ssemble 1.30 p.m. at Finsbury Called by the H Block/Armagh The June 13 demonstration in support of the H Block hunger strikers is an important focus for the growing move towards solidarity with the Irish struggle.
It has taken the trauma of the deaths of four brave republican prisoners on hunger strike in Long Kesh: it has taken years of patient political work by a handful of anti-imperialists in the teeth of a barrage of imperialist propaganda, but at long last there are signs that important sections of the British labour movement are beginning to respond to the struggle of their Irish brothers and sisters.
Bobby Sands' elec tion as MP in Fermanagh/S. Tyrone -with more votes ast for him than Margaret Thatcher got in Tory Finchleycoupled with the sacrifice of his death and the colossal turn-out on his funeral in Belfast appear finally to have touched an apparently ossified nerve in the British working class.
Whether or not they agree with the politics and tactics of the IRA, more and more workers are recognising that Sands, his fellow hunger strikers, and other republican prisoners are not FIVE DEMANDS! -as the press depicts them simply isolated "criminals" STOP THE DEATHS! but prisoners of war, with huge popular support captured in the course of their struggle against an March to Hyde Park occupying army.
the H Block/Arma!
The explosion of anger of black youth against contin- Committee ual state harrassment in Brixton also brought home to