Ennals loses his
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: Following the shootings of Irish Republican Socialist Party chairman Seamus Costello and Derry IRSP organișer Colin MeNutt (who was buried on 16 December), these raids signify an increase in the degree of open repression being meted out to republicans.
For eight years now-since the troops went in in August 1969-that repression has been systematically doled out to all who dared raise their voice against British thuggery.
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Internment, torture and assassination squads have been used to bludgeon the Catholics into submission; now one of the vehicles for exposing and combatting such repression has been taken away as well.
It is imperative that Sinn Fein's right to a newspaper be restored at once.
That right will always be in jeopardy though, as long as Dritich arms ramaino The Hounslow Occupation faces a fresh threat this week from David Ennals, Cabinet Minister presiding over the destruction of the health service.
Ennals has warned that he will cut off the switchboard at the hospital, in an attempt to bring the occupation to a halt.
And at a meeting in Oxford last week, Ennals condemned the occupation members as 'extremists' whom he accused of wasting Area Heaith Authority money.
He also denied point blank that the smashing up of the Hounsiow Hospital ever took place!
Ennals' visit to Oxford was primarily to bring the local health service unions bureaucrats into line. He came to lay it on the line that there would not be an extra penny for the opening of the John Radcliffe Phase II-and that other hospitals would have to close.
Last month a delegation of right wingers had returned from a visit to Ennals in London saying that they had received a promise that the hospital would open.
This promise Ennals intends to keep. He has ordered the Area Health Authority to open the hospital come what may and close down enough services to pay for it.
Presumably no more beds will get smashed up and Ennais patients pushed out into the rain than proved necessary at Hounslow.
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