relevance today.
Irish people who fight back Government are outlaws by definition.
on 9 July.
since the marches supporting the hunger strike of the Price sisters has the British left mounted national initiatives to put this key point of programme into practice. The Prisoners Committee (PA demonstration in ily offers possibility changing that situation The Ceilral Commillee 0. the Internatioual Marxist toup has already marked it a pronly and there are 100IcaDOns that CbC tom-QuI from other forces on the far left will be significact.
It would be a silly mistake bowever to believe thar it is cither general theorerical considerations or conscience from the British left which gives the 9 Tuly march its While it is true the old Troops Out Members of West London United Troops Out Movement staged a protest in Hammersmith on Saturday againat conditions in H WRITING IN 1867 Karl Marx made an observation about Irish political prisoners which retains all of its The brutal treatment of these prisoners, he said, was an expression of the idea that the English have a divine right to fight the Irish on their native soil but that any In this light, AILEAN O'CALLAGHAN, Irish organiser of the International Marxist Group, argues the importance of the Irish prisoners" demonstration Movement did no prisoners' defence work during its lifetime between 1974 and was because the Launched when almost everyone who supported the struggle believed that British was about to be way around the question of the No better defence of Irish SANSUNHES would have possible than the creation of a catergence of the new united only been Troops Out Movement that the conceptions underivine the perspectives for solidarity of work in those three years has beea challenged by the majority of activisis, happening in Ireland alich Above all it is what БL00 sychologica or mor deces that Britain jails political activists, 350 of them on the blanket' in Ireland, and a further 85 in this country, in conditions in Europe.
BAN It is because the attempt to portray the trish Fighters crimunals Recent examples in the struggle this TOM was HEISEE TES CICATE MIC BEICS! of the Belfast executive of Sinn Fein is de facto the proscription Irish of a legal political party and a reversal 0. struggle when Sinn Fein was legalised in 1973.
The circulation of a so-called contession by the murdered Brian Macute was an attent to justify his death at the haods of the RUC in Castlereagh And the charging of an SDIP member the IRA because Printer of Republican ave one message masses: they are "criminals" by association if they are in any way connected with resistance the British occupation. Block, Long Kesh. A number of the protesters were clad only in Dankers, as are over sow proonere Long rest because 1600 Irish Government worst prison in Crumlin Road jail.
blanker in the H-block essential to the people.
for political status.
DEFENCE the gain son hy Batish occupation.
with membership of he is the the the trish on the scrocts on 9 July.
entirely The central demand in the renewed street activity has been political status. Again this was a Tory serjously won in struggle from the 1972 Followed a hunger scrike by position Billy McKee and his comrades SiOM These rights were stolen back by the Labour Government in 1976. Now the prisoners on the and elsewbere have waged hunger strikes and other protests. There is no question that the Irish masses will he measuring stresgth -D' the success or failure of the fight steps CHUE solidarity work must therefore Irish people in their defence of the imrisoned vicums or the Those are the very reasons which make the Internationa! Tribunal such an imponant initiative. But its success wil itself depend on the outcome ol 9 July and similar occasions. For the sake of the Irish people today (and ourselves tomor row more than a token effort must be made to yes real force
HOW SERIOUSLY the views its Most of the committees are for