tional Committee of the Irish revolutionary socialist organisation, Peoples Democracy PD WELCOMES the the hunger strike.
Irish people all over this island, we breathe a sigh of relief that no longer do the prisoners have sacrifice their very basic demands.
We salute the tremendous courage overwhelming shown by the prisoners who for five long vears lived with the brutality and torture in the H Blocks and who resisted the British criminalisation policy.
The death of ten prisoners and the building of a mass campaign in Ireland and at an PReTERONG prevented the Brits from defeating the prisoners. But we could not call this a victory for the prisoners either.
The outcome of a political struggle is not always judged on the terms on which it is eventually settled. It is best assessed on which side emerges from the struggle stronger. And by that criteria there is no doubt that the Brits have suffered a setback.
A brief summary of our gains over the last two years clearly indicates this; Two election victories in the Westminster government. ending of Like many to has seen for ten years. lives for determination first step.
level has must fight back.
bourgeois Broad. Tyrone, two prisoners TD's, (MPs) in Dail Eireann, several important election victories in the May Six County local government elections, worldwide protests against the intransigent Thatcher worldwide sympathy Jor 07 an united Treland, marginalisation of the Social Democratic & Labour Party because of their failure to support the prisoners and the highest level of mass mobilisation that freiand Our successes have struck a chord of fear among Fianna Fail, the SDIP and the Coalition. These misleaders of the Trish reaple are la campao strike back campaign militants following the British embassy riot is the Fitzgeruld intends to follow this with an attack on irish Unity through Articles Two and Three of the Constitution. His plan is simple: remove the goal from sight and you smother the aspiration. We The anti-imperialist movement must build on its gains. Disunity will allow the nationalists to regain lost ground and claim leadership. There are opportunities but they will disappear quickly if we sit still or choose the wrong The Way Forward essentially means: (i) Opposing the Coalition and Fianna Fail in Cavan-Monaghan and the coming imperialist programme; (ii) The political defence of the campaign militants specifically the Belfast 34 and the Embassy 19 (ill) Unity against partition, organise to fight for an United Ireland.
This is the way we must continue. Relying on military activity will squander The London bombing was ORLENES. counterproductive. If continued it could harden out reaction and stifle pressure for Irish Unity within the British labour movement.
The energies of would best be channelled into the task of bringing the greatest number of people into active struggle against partition. we transfer everything into a bombing campaign it rules out real participation by the southern working class the necessary ingredient to break down partition and force the British out.
Going into the heart of the Southern working class remains challenge to the anti-imperialist movement. The H Block campaien came close but not close enough.
An all Ireland mass movement of working people is the only real guaranto of trish Unity and British Withdrawal. I is also the best defence against sectarian Loyalist attacks which thrive in times of disunity or confusion. The UDA and the UFF must be answered with the unity o the mass movement. anti-imperialist the biggest H Block protest in Dublin July 1981 Socialist Challenge 29 October 1981 Page 11