IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

26 YEARS TOM MFEELY

Socialist Challenge No. 62, 7 September 1978 · p. 12 of the scan · 356 words

The scan: sc-n62-sep-7-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

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Roy Mason says it's self-inflicted punishment. I say Roy, Mason wrong. The reason for this protest is because the punishment which was being iaflicted on those men was our of all propsation for anything the had done, and they had no comebaci A British prisoner decan't expect to be constantly beaten for norhing. And this was what was actually happening They are inflicting it on Roy Mason Gavernment surely waste, excreta, srine And l'so sure a very, vers highly educated governor doesn't like pertine urine throwi round bite every Line he goes to speak by ordinary they hight be famous now, is a proup, but individually they're only boys that sas, "Yes, ma', and "That' Roy Mason's wrong. and hell always be wrong, and the Britist, will always be wrong as long as they set their feet here and put shackles on ty I hate them, for they haven't tho right to he here. They came here, to a Gaelic land we never went to LUnBULI enybody слез destroyed it.

But they can't destroy these three hundred and fifts men. Since 1916 ae've never had men in a group that we could think so much of. hecause my son sone of them I don't care if he's from Cork. OT the Bogside, or Andoyne, or where he's CHANGE I's made an awful change in this house. This was always a Republican bouse, a socialist house. But now... Everybods in the house is really proud of him, really proud And l'm his mother, I raised him a Republican, I'd want him to be brave. Bet I'm afraid now, that something is going to happen to him. I think every

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