A CAMPAIGN is being launched by Democracy Movement for a Socialist Republic (Irish Section, Fourth International in support of PD membes Denis Murphy.
He was arrested in March 1977 after a major army swoop on the Dermott Hill area where ne aves army alleged that a rifle and and, after spending & year on TOTESUS 1S come to trial on an arous possession comEHe first received a trial dare Peoples then postponed, and the drew up and and that there Loyalist paramilitaries The the the Peoples shortly to Movement for over a month ago. The trial was but at that -LS time a group of his neighbours circulated a Six petition supporting Denis.
The petition pointed out that ists on several occasions in the past there had been a grave danger Beitain, of civil war in the Six Counties, history of attacks on the area by In a few days over 300 in Dermot Hill area signe petition in support of Democracy and Socialist Republic have now decided ro coming to tril.
La broad campaign around the petition in support is the of Denis Murphy, The petition being made available anti-repression groups in the Countie. I is beung circulated among trade union and civil bberties to porters in the 26 Counties.
members the Labour movement are heing asked for support, PD and MSR believe that are bound up with Denis Murphy's case. There is the issue of internment by remand system that leads to prisoners serving the equivalent of two and three-year sentences before Even more importantly there policy OF repression based almost exclusively on military domination anti-unionist areas. coupled with discrimination within the legal system leading disproportionately high sentences for anti-imperialist prisoners Finally there is the issue of the defence of Catholic areas, given the history of British Loyalist paramilitaries and the many RUC and UDR Loyalist paramilitary groups.
Copies of the petition are available Connolly Bookshop, BUSES. Andersonstown Rd, Belfast 1l