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Registered with thie Post Olfice as a newspaper. Published by Cardinal Enterprises for Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper Street, London N1. Printed by East End Offset Ltd (TU), Lot TONY Benn, the leader of the left wing in the Labour Party, has called on the British government to agree to the demands of Irish political prisoners in the H-Blocks in Long Kesh and the women's prison in Armagh.

Benn has put his name to the Charter 80 petition currently being circulated in the British labour movement and elsewhere, which calls for 'human rights for Irish political prisoners'.

Seven Labour MPs have now signed Charter 80, whose founding rally will take place in London on 27 September.

Tony Benn will also be a speaker at the Labour Party conference fringe meeting on Ireland, to be held under the auspices of the Labour Committee on Ireland.

For more details of Charter 80, see page 13.