International Tribunal on Britain's Presence in Ireland Final Hearing: London, 7/8 July, Conway Hall Delegates credentials from International Tribunal, Socialíst Challenge 21 June 1979 Page 10 our comrades land and to all our relatives and friends outside. It is not a personal opinion but LOW is written on behalf of the and blanket publican prisoners of war in the H-Blocks:
It concerns your stand Place, candidate European towards elections is that we totally object to taking part and we fully support for boycott stall The following are the main reasons for our call Out to boycott:
should successful in your election campaign and become an elected member set-up what-changes you even hope to make?
Have we in Ireland not seen all • 100. often sees mereevant be politics of the ment are and have been regarding our position in the Six Counties?
Has anyone into the existing set-ups and brought freedom any closer?
What makes you think it will be any different in had Europe when it comes to questions on Ireland?
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will be a coalition of those WIlU Inter- Leinster House and their supporters were European countries. From these you the not here as a direct result of the position created by these same people?
What good can your campaign sion do in a place where the the Re- perpetrators of this repression have such a powertul position?
Did you achieve anything at Westminster?
the What can you hope to Our achieve. al these Luxembourg?
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torture of political prisonthe call ers in the H-Blocks or the this brute against the people in the streets?
the prisoners in the H-Blocks be don't consider so. the roughest end of British repression, don't consider this that you will make one iota can of difference.
We know only too well that only how remessinh, forever, is the repression, orever. establish- boot both it and the people (the Brits) who H-Blocks Vul country at the point of a gun, which is comrades and their supporters doing and will continue to do.
The reason why we are here in the you protest reform, but for Westminster, real change, and freedom. the Tich Republican Prisoners, expect H-Blocks 3, 4, 5 & 6.
against repres Strasbourg/ stop the -repression Republican way build of Vul our outside are now H-bioCks on for any change, revolution 47 Wilsham Street, London W11 tactic at this time. wage afterwards.
spoDort of you. European newspapers Italy. We believe that a boycott is the wrong Three weeks campaigning across the Six Counties has made that clear beyond any doubt. We have brought the message of your indomitable fight for the status to which you are entitled to every town, village and townland in the Six Counties and broadened and deepened support for it.
That support will be shown not only in the election result but in the campaign which we will continue to I have never claimed to speak directly for you. But you will be aware that I have never failed to speak out in And vou have mi pledge that I will continue to do that.
You will also be aware that many of your parents, relatives and friends are actively involved in my campaign, not at all because they are committed to me, but precisely because they are passionately committed to you.
I do not say - and you seem to be under a misapprehension about this make the H-Hock crumble through activity the European Assembly. Of course not.
What I do say is that I can use the Assembly to take the message of the H-blocks and of the Castlereagh torture chambers, repressive law and the British presence, on the highways and by-ways of Europe and make imperialism's last obscenity in Ireland stink throughout Already our campaign has put H-Blocks on to the front pages o1 in Germany, and Denmark in the last fortnight alone. And that's just a start. When we are finished the H-Blocks will haunt Britain everywhere. Every politician and bureaucrat will walk in the shadow of the H-Blocks wherever they go in Europe. T'i see to it.'
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