Support Of Prisoners
Socialist Republic1981The Southern state and its partiesPrisoners and the hunger strikesLoyalism and unionismRepublicanism and the IRAThe Southern state and its partiesPrisoners and the hunger strikesLoyalism and unionismRepublicanism and the IRA
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Recently women from the Liberties area in Dublin approached the local H.Block/ Armagh action group with a request for a womens march in support of the prisoners.They felt this would give women a special opportunity to unite together and support the prisoners five demands.
A large number of women organised the tral Committee and the National Committee of the campaign. The march set off from the GPO on August 22nd after speeches from Sheila Darragh and Ruth Taillon of the National Committee...
The March which drew about 1,000 women behind its banner, headed for the offices of the Council for the Status of women.At a November conference organised by the Council, resolutions were adopt-ed in support of the Armagh women at several of the workshops.The letter demanded to know why. the call for enquiry into prison conditions had not been made of the previous gov ernment. Other demands made at that conference had been notified to the elected representatives. The marchers also went to Government buildings as a protest against continuing Dublin/London collaboration. and interested in the campaign. The sponsors at the women Felatovesof the hunger strikers. The Donegal Derry border will be the crossing point in commemoration of the October 1968 Civil Rights march in Derry City. A march which sparked off the present struggle er all those women North and Sorth active start from each side of the border. The international solidarity shown by feminists at previous womens .
and can be repeated.
against partition. ring Dublin 747200 or Belfast 49973.
TR SSRN organisers hope that the impressive assemblies outside Armagh jail will To find out more about this march Tonight.
howe In fact the difference is small, and a look at some of the new University Senators shows they are stalking horses for Unionism. A new Senator for TCD is stockbroker Shane Ross who writes a weekly business column for the business section of The Irish Times. An important part of his platform was the abolition of Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution, which claim jurisdiction over hke 6 Counties, and the extradition of Republicans from the South if Britain wants to put them on trial. - It should be remembered that a significant minority of TCD graduates are Northern Unionists. So Ross is their “Trojan Horse” in Leinster House. Mary Robinson and Catherine -MacGuinness, while in no sense republicans or anti-imperialists, have a better record than most of their fellow parlidmentarians on the issue of democratic rights for Republicans.
The National University of Ireland produced two anti-Republican Senators of note, Fine Gael’s Gemma Hussey and John A Murphy of Cork University. Ms. Hussey, who will lead Fine Gael in the new Seanad, has made several attacks on the Republican movement. Professor Murphy’s views are almost indistinguishable from Sinn Fein the Workers’ Party (SF-WP), which is the reason he appears so often on RTE’s main current affairs TV programme, Today Ms. Hussey by now is too well versed in the hypocritical approach of Fine Gael to come out openly as a Unionist. Her party, and her career, depend for power on concealing their true-blue colour. But Messrs. Murphy and Ross, } ver high their ambition, are not 10n to thimx Oo >. +1 L >
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