IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Bring Mason's war home, 70ct

Socialist Challenge No. 65, 28 September 1978 · pp. 12-13 of the scan · 384 words

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page 12 of the scan

October marks the latest Resolution, O'CALLAGHAN. built.

Ten years later, H Blocksand elsewhere, movement another tenth anniversary of the birth of the phase of the Irish AILEAN National workers.

On 5 October 1968 the Royal Ulter Conscabulary viciously attacked a small civil rights march in Derry. Their actions, seen on TV screens the world over, laid hare the essential repressive nature of the six County state. Virtualiy overnight a mass movemeor was building solidarity with the Irish peo ple's fight is a more urgent task thaa ever, specially given the strueele for POW status in the Ir is to take the solidarity the step for ward that the United Troops ment Out Movement has called a demonscration in Barnsley on 7.

Barnsley is the constituency of Roy Mason, the Mister for his trial which exposed the wil assemble at Rock Street (off Sackvill: Street) at 12.30 and will pass the Yorkshire Region beadquarters of the Union of MineThe importance of this is that the NUM continues to sponsor Roy Mason as an MP. One of the slogans that Socialist Unity and biber supporters UTOM will saise is for the union to break its links with the man who presides over Brita store gone in are and.

DEMANDS In doine so they will be choing demands already raised by trade union branches in the Six Counties in the wake of controversy surrounding Willie Gallagher's imprisonWillie, it will be renembered, was the subject of a recent TV play, The Legion Hall Bombing', a transcript of Diplock Courts father, Brendan Gailagher, is expected to speak at the Barnsley demenstration in support not only of his so0 Mason's prison canap system An impressive turn out in Barnsley could give a big impets for an ongoing cambpaign in the NUM and the rest to dissociate the mass organifrom Mason's War.

Whether or such campaen could achieve big successes in the short term, it would at least begin to group some industrial militants on the side of the Trish people. As a first step to building a mass troops out current in the unions this would already be a major achievement And there couldn't be a more fitting tribule to the decade of anti-imperia ist strugele waged I by the Irish people.

page 13 of the scan

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