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Why not see your local Socialist Challenge seller and make an arrangement 4. to hand THE issue standing the four hunger strikers and didates.
The prisoners will mainly be contesting seats the border alONIC standing against government Foreign Minister Brian Lenihan in Dublin West Other candidates will also take up. prisoners Neil Bianey's dependent Fianna Fail Republican Party are fielding candidates in ine border counties covered by the prisoners But it has been left to the revolutionary organisation People's Democracy challenge Prime Minister Haughey in his North Central Dublin conTalks Vincent Doherty member of the prominent National H Block Committee and PD Dublin will be standing there. In Limerick another PD mem bel nent labour movement activist Joe Harrington is intending to stand.
The platform PD candidates challenges the bankruptcy OI the bourgeois nationalists over the prisoners, calling for the expulsion of the of the H Block prisoners will dominate this month's elections in the south of Ireland. The National H Block Committee is other H Block and Armagh prisoners as canCharles Haughey and breaking off the Thatcher/ Haughey talks unal une prisoners' issue is resolved. They will also challenging the economic and social exploitation of the working class PD are hopin locat Block Action DOIL the Groups local ; on the basis of their central involvement in the prisoners' campaign to date. . Bernadette McAliskey, acting as press officer for prisonels tallials, has already announced her support for Doherty's candidature.
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Leaders of the major political parties had hoped this would _be a normal "bread and butter' issues And Haughey, long considered the most nationalist