Strins, have nol Humphrey Atkins, left there.
Interviewed the United States on 6 May, satei everyone who is concerned The funeral of Francis Hughes brought out tens of thousands of mourners internment; from murder to torture; from a compliant British media, to in this country, the Prevention OI Terrorism Act - the struggle for Irish national liberation has continued. It is Provisional IRA which started as a rightpolitical now proclaim themselves revolutionary socialists. Whie the H Block cam pae heroibe inspire by dividual political clout has from the mass nature of the campaign.
For the world at large, the 100,000 DCODiC WHu took part in Bobby Sands funeral procession, silent though they were, spoke louder man ine mignties! bomb which has been planned mn me now This is not to suggest that the IRA should now dump their guns. The memory of the civil rights movement and how it wa batoned and shot off th streets by the Unionists and then the British army should never be forgotten.
The fact that Thatcher allowed an elected member of parliament to die shows what scant regard the imperialists have for the democratic process when it goes against them.
It can also be said that military achievements IRA have made Brist up Lake notice, and that the ma• jority opinion Britain for troop withdrawal, • reflected in many opinior does sten from a sense of 'war-weariness' But a military struggle, by itself, will free imperialist Action It should be acknow. ledged that through the H Block movement the Republicans have taken part in a campaign which has consciously subordinated the armed struggle to the Whatever the outcome now of the H Block issue the way it has been fought has reactivated many Irish mintants and nas bonnical phase. For Socialist Issuc. lenge's Irish coverage concentrated alerting our reade: simple fact that a wa going that the villains in that wai Socialist Challenge