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… in Northern Ireland and is informed by the Marxist analysis of the Communist Party of Ireland'.Coming at a point after the Hunger Strikes the document offers a view of the 'Roots of the Irish Crisis' which includes an overview of Partition and after….
… civil war in the Seventies, and the emotional blackmail of the hunger strikes. This time with John Hume on board, the Provisionals thought they were home and dry. And later it suggests that ‘[Hume/Adams] would have been the catalyst for another 20 years…
… Campaign which was held that year in Dublin. Policy Area - Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act Event - Hunger Strikes, 1980/81 People - Bobby Sands…
… consider the Preface. Written at a time when the fortunes of Republicanism appeared to wane in the aftermath of the Hunger Strikes it notes: In the wake of the defat of the 1980/81 hunger strikes… the national struggle in Ireland has, at the time…
… Peace and Liberty* Pity the Downtrodden Landlord* The Red Flag* Solidarity Forever* Song of the Future* Song of the Hunger Marchers* Song of the Low* Song to Labour* Sit down* Strike for Better Wages* The Blackleg* The Watchword of Labour* Willie Browne* We Shall Not Be Moved People - James Connolly…
… on the Shankill under the ‘Shankill Education Workshop’ from the late 1970s into the early 1980s, it commemorates the Hunger Riots of October 1932.For more information on the SET and the aims of the Shankill Bulletin [this site is very… of the UDA, who got elected – in a by-election – to Belfast City Council in the year of the Hunger Strike, 1981. During the full Council elections a few months later he held on to his seat. The Provisional IRA tried to kill him but only managed…
… produced typewritten leaflet some five pages long. This perhaps gives some sense of the rapid pace of events during the hunger strikes and the need for political formations to respond to them likewise.On the cover under a hand-drawn image of Sands it…
Students and Sinn Féin Sinn Féin This document,issued by Sinn Féin appears to date from prior to the Hunger Strikes because there’s no mention of same in the text. A two sided A4 leaflet it notes that SF is ‘one of the largest…
… these opportunities were squandered by the rotten role of the trade union leaders in particular. The aftermath of the hunger strikes of the early 1980s, coupled with the industrial and political defeats suffered by the working class in Britain, prepared…
… SF electoral victories have destroyed the British strategy of criminalisation and normalisation. The Hunger Strike made this possible but without SF electoral victories the effects of the Hunger Strikes would be quickly forgotten – think back to the emotional wave that followed Bloody Sunday and how we failed to harness it.It also suggests…
… boycott of an SDLP collection. There is a piece on the British Orange Link and a report on the ‘hunger strike victory’ in Long Kesh where political status was accepted. Of particular interest is the mention of repression in the South where it reports…
… the vast majority of the general public has equated the IRA and SF with crisis (e.g. the Hunger Strikes, Gibraltar and its bloody aftermath, Warrington, etc.). Today the republican movement has transformed its public image, conveying an image of…
… twelve page pamphlet was published in support of prisoners in H-Block and Armagh Prisons and their five demands during the hunger strikes. These being:> 1. The right to wear their own clothes, instead of prison uniform.> 2. The right to use their time on…
… Republic Many thanks to the person who forwarded this edition of Socialist Republic. Published at the height of the hunger strikes it is strongly focused on that issue with front page articles criticising Fianna Fáil, the SDLP and Cardinal…
… of publication. A twelve page document it encompasses a significant range of materials – but perhaps inevitably it is the hunger strikes protest which is focused on most. August 1981 was the month the last of the ten hunger strikers died – Michael Devine…
… to Republican News and so on.But the cover article is perhaps most interesting given that it references the end of the Hunger Strikes.It notes that:> The hunger strikes dominated the political scene not only in Ireland – where they were the major…
… of the ‘mass movement’ of the Hunger Strikes campaign and after]… in short to agitate among the unemployed, the low paid and the small farmers. in shot agitate and organise for a Workers and Small Farmers Republic.> Sadly things were not taken in this…
… The British Government and the news media in Ireland have tried to portray the ending of the H Block and Armagh hunger strikes as a defeat for the prisoners and their supporters. Despite the fact that major concession on all five demands were promised, an…
… of the Sinn Féin Students Forum, thorough to the legalisation of cannabis, ‘Globalisation explained’, a Hunger Strike Commemoration Poster and pieces on Stormont and the GFA/BA….
… precisely 39 years ago, this one page document from Revolutionary Struggle National Question Collective issued during the Hunger Strike campaign argues for attacks on the enemy of the working-class. It argues in particular for the release of those…