IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Charter 80 action plan for campaign

· Socialist Challenge No. 166, 3 October 1980 · pp. 13-14 of the scan · 383 words

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page 13 of the scan

we get moved And then during the day, The birds like maggots, and there's plenty of maggots in your cell. You wake up in the morning and you lift your mattress, and there's hundreds of them under you for heat. At times there's been wee birds in our cell, in the corner I remember the day a robin redbreast landed in the yard on fellow that down and shoved his mate and woke him up, and said, 'Shush' for him to 'Robin in the yard,' he said. So he rapped the wall.

wall, it's a And the other fellow on the other side just got down 'What?' and listened.

So it just went right down 'Robin in the yard.' A knew, but 1981 would shout, and everybody just got up to the windows and they were all stanI never knew them before -wagtails, all the different names. Even we had a seagull that landed in our yard, and it backwards. That's a hundred! A hundred is an ex 200 people attended the founding rally of Charter in London September. Gerry Fitzpatrick of the Charter Co-ordinating Committee point action plan which it is hoped will give a major boost to the campaign for the prisoners of Armagh and Long Kesh.

The proposals include: 1) A big drive for sponsorship in the labour movement and in all the mass movements; 2) A nationwide speaking tour in the last week of October and the first two weeks of November. The tour, sponsored Co-ordinating Committee, will be primarily aimed at the campuses, also involve town meetings; 3) A day of action on 10 December, International Human Rights Day; 4)

delegation to H-Block and Christmas time; 5) A demonstration on 1 March political status.

Among the speakers Margaretta D'Arcy of the Armagh Co-ordinating Committee, who has just been released after serving three months in Armagh, and Irish trade union leader Kevin McConnell. messages of support was one from the prisoners in H-Block giving their full support to Charter 80 and ur the campaign'it is launching.

Sodiakst Chal on Saturday announced a for the campaign, by the Armagh the SSA, and SWSO but will Armagh around the fifth anniversary of the abolition of at the rally were Notable among the

page 14 of the scan

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