Two Years on the Blanket
Socialist Republic1978Prisoners and the hunger strikesLabour, the left and left unityPrisoners and the hunger strikesLabour, the left and left unity
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RAC, which has been established since early 1976 and continually supported by PD, has played an important role in the organisation of protests and demonstrations in support of political prisoners, The 2nd year of H,Block was marked with a successful that the support is there and there is now a fairly big movement ready to demonstrate and The march in Coalisland and another held more recently from Dunville Park has shown that a broad mass resistance exists against British rule and repression which even forced O'Fiaich to speak out against the conditions of political prisoners saying, ired by the normal man to maintain his physical and mental health and to live a life which is tolerably human. should be restored to these prisoners without delay."
It's taken the SDLP two years to make a statement on H,Block, They needn't have tried to be on both sides of the fence saying that on one hand, the prisoners! conditions were not as good as they might be but on the other hand the! security forces ' had a difficult job to do and were probably doing their best, lives up to our expectations of the SDLP, It waffles about and is as pro- British as the However the fact that they did make a statement shows they are vulnerable on the issue, and also shows the broad support that the prisoners have. Unity around the October march and for Political Status could bring a speedy end to the prisoners! ordeal, There are still big problems because of the lack of unity in the political groups. Only 4 “united movement which establishes Political Status as the central aim of the struggle has any chance of success, There its the potential as has been shown in the massive demonstrations of H,Block, The ficht. for Political Status. bothered, As usual they party itself, but there must be The 10th anniversary of the anti-impertalist str:
centralised and united action if we are to win.
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| demonstration of well over 10,000 in Coalisland. Previously the fight for Political Status has | been ill-co-ordinated and has won only the support of political activists,but the march proved