Responsibility for the death of Bobby Sands MP and Francis Hughes
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#e) SOCIALIST REPUBLIC Responsibility for the death of Bobby Sands MP and Francis Hughes rests entirely with the British Government. The cruel intransigence of Thatcher and Atkins, their rejection of national anc international opinion represents a calculated insult to the whole of the Irish people. and demonstrates the racist con contempt in which the British ruling class holds the people of this country.
In extending our sorrowing condolence to the family and comrades of Bobby Sands and Francis Hughes, Peoples Democracy wishes to assure them of the fact that they do not mounmn alone: the people of Ireland and al! those who have known oppression by an imperial power are with them in this dark hour, Bobby Sands and Francis Hughes are not the first martyrs of the Irish struggle for freedom and national independence, Their deaths, like those that went before them, do not humiliate or cower the resistance of the Irish people as our enemies hope but rather inspire us all to greater efforts to bring to a final end the struggle for the five just demands of the political prisoners.
In the immediate days ahead, we must turn our efforts to_wards saving the lives of the other hunger strikers who are continuing with courage the fight for the five demands, There is not a single responsible voice in Ireland that denies the justice of these demands, The unity of the Irish people which we began to build during the last few months must now be completed. Fianna Fail and the SDLP must bow to the demands HUNGER STRIKE NATIONAL BULLETIN of the nationalist people of Ireland, The British ambassador in Dublin must be sent home, All talks with the British government must be ended, All representatives of the nationalist people must withdraw from British government institutions, All collaboration’ to safeguard the border must be ended, Britain's murder of Bobby Sands and Francis Hughs represents a declaration of war against the Irish people. We must respond to this in a united and disciplined manner. Our strateaqyvy must be that of mass peaceful protests and, most importantly, industrial action against British firms and products, Britain will increasingly be seen as the real criminal. We shall have political status for our political prisoners. We shall smash the H-Blocks. Victory to the Hunger Strikers] eS RUT OK CHARLIE, AS LONG AS You KEEP YOuR MOUTH suut THe RELATIONSHIP CAH CONTINUE —
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