Charge The British insist that the prisoners are criminals', and a statement from the government's Northern Ireland Office, H atter the announcement the hunger strike, this charge saying: murder is murder wherever it is committed.' Britain is applying massive double-standard. a purely factual basis it is by no means the case that all the prisoners murder. More importanty, the campaign supporting the demands.
show some humanity to the sions. prisoners have also been made on an international basis. between weeks the the Catholic the United became the latest to prisoners when it hunger former prisoner a leather-bound citaColglatulatilig on paign 'his heroic stand in suffering Provisional ycals . of torture But they don't tell you why; cry, TOOr Call us sir, you rebel swine A dinner topped with And tea that smelt of urine scorn, For visiting British MPs, Is dirtier The prisoner, he walks tall.
In Ireland, the Catholic Church has repeatedly pressed Britain to make conceswas the recent colapse of the talks on the issue Tory secretary of Cardinal Tomas O'Fiach which has now forced the prisoners to decide on a It should be stressed that throughout the H Block cam the leadership of the Republican movement have consistently advised their members against Socialist Challenge 16 October 1980 And tell you how we have done it all. Of taunting screws that made the soft ones They taught us how to cope with dirt, They who have done it long before When they kicked our slops around the cell And bade us clean it or be beaten more, And on the floor you must dine, Fi dirty spit, Far better it be to inflict our own thorn Than to lie down and take it issued with They can perform cosmetic operations Who in turn make a cosmetic statement, •o put the enquiring population at ease The propaganda that they spread than our cell wall, but amidst the torture and the dirt going on hunger strike. But the situation has now reached such a pitch that the prisoners feel they have no option but to make the stand on which LICY will now embark on 27 All those in Britain who care about what is happening in Ireland, who care about the evils perpetrated the Blocks, who care about sim ple human suffering should over the coming weeks, do all in their power to ensure that the prisoners do Holstall alone.
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