IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Support the H Block prisoners, support Charter '80

· Socialist Challenge No. 151, 12 June 1980 · p. 16 of the scan · 346 words

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page 16 of the scan

and Ciaran Toal, were assaulted.

in Armlags.

with no jury trial.

life being pure hell have been withdrawn. The prisoners are demanding: Regstered with the Post Office as a FOUR prisoners in H4 Block, Long Kesh, were attacked by warders during a wing shift on 30 May. Two of the four, Thomas Moran and Sean Boyle, were badly beaten, and two others, Sean Connolly This small news item in the Sinn Fein paper Republican News is one incident anong the many attacks that are made on prisoners demanding political status in Long Kesh and the women's prison The prisoners are there as a result of the 'conveyer-belt' system of justice in the North of Ireland. Those who are now in H Block and Armagh have been tried in front of 'Diplock' courts The prisoners have refused to wear the degrading prison uniform and all the so-called "privileges' which stop a prisoner's * The right to wear their own clothes; * The right to refrain from prison work;

* Restoration of full remission of sentences.

meetings, and education around the prisoners' case.

of the prisoners in their fight for political status campaign. * The right to free association among political prisoners; * The right to organise their own recreational and educational facilities and receive one visit, letter and parcel per week;

Supporting them in Ireland is a mass campaign, the National Smash H Block Committee, which has organised demonstrations, In Britain there is also a national campaign the basis of which was established last week in London. The founding meeting of the campaign called Charter '80 decided to support the five demands The conference of the Troops Out Movement to be held in Edinburgh at the end of this month will be asked to endorse the The Charter '80 campaign can make a massive contribution to the case of the Republican prisoners, a contribution which cári. start to end the attacks'on prisoners like Thomas Moran and Sean. Boyle, and bring H. Block and. Armagh to the ground t Britain:

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