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of Fermanagh and South cal all for the prisoners, north of Ireland is a 'law and order' population.

but our admiration goes to Frankie and the women in Armagn Socialist Challenge Tyrone that the demands of the and their challenge to Britain's attempts to pretend that what is going on in the problem, represents the mass feeling of the nationalist We encourage Tony Benn to speak out, Hughes, the other hunger strikers, and the men in Long Kesh 21 May 1981 Page 2 A similar will be available on 27 May when the LCI is organising a lobby of Labour's na. tional executive.

The 01 f tion for this year's conference reads:

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Dublin, Monday THE British govern ment continues to oursue policy designed to provoke an explosion of desperation and rage in This was graphically. illustrated Friday, when the coffin carrying the body of hunger-striker Francis Hughes was • commandeered by ine ponce.

They refused to let it go through the streets of nationalist West Belfast, where large crowd •had gathered, waiting to Photo: JOANNE O'BRIEN pay its respects.

A statement from the Hughes family described their agony:

A large force of RUC tonowea inp 'nearse iron the RUC Jorcibi, the ho. Minutes later stopped the hearse. The RUC tried pull out the driver.

ruiner Wus assaulted by the police, as vere other members of the The brother of hunger-striker Ray McCreesh, speaking in Dublin brutalises me to the point of death.

'My broken and cold, I'm lonely and I need comfort. Somewhere ajar i near Jammar voice. which keep going 'We are with you son, OrP sOn we art with you, don't let them defeat vou.

" need lo near inos POLES monster. The retreats anger the the voices scare the devil. know if they shout louder they will scare the monster away and my suffering will pe enata Freedom Sands' mother sat with him before h died. Her last, words to him . were, 'You have finally , got the freedom vou tought tor This is the human victory of the hunger-strikers the smug British bourgeois British prime minister conIs it any wonder that this country is seething anger Sands' death was lollowea oy ine growin o protests. momentarily population and disorientated the movemeni. The