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Date Posted: 15:19:52 08/13/02 Tue

>Subject : Social cancellation for Irish Political
>status Committee
>
>Date : Mon, 27 May 2002 00:32:04 +0100 (BST)
>
>Due to circumstances currently unknown but most
>probably due to Pressures and intervention from Pro -
>Good Friday Agreement reactionary elements, the Social
>planned for Friday 31st May 2002 at the Arsenal tavern
>has been CANCELLED! The bar manager who was a
>successful manager for years was subsequently sacked
>after the new manager `acknowledged` the fact that the
>Irish Political status Committee "Will not be having a
>social event for Political Prisoners" and openly
>stated that " No you won`t be having it here" with
>his arms crossed like a big boss whilst the bar
>covered in English Football colours! This bar is well
>known for it`s determination to allow progressive
>events to be held untill now !!
>
>We will shortly be distributing a statement outlining
>the situation after more facts have been established
>on this current situation and attempts to stiffle
>Solidarity with Republican PoW`s. A situation occurred
>in Belfast last year where the Irish Republican
>Prisoners Welfare Association organised a function for
>Republican PoW`s. A short time after the bar where the
>Function was held was subsequently burnt to the ground!
>
>The following is a quote from James Connolly and
>reads; "To hell with your concessions England! We want
>our country"! The Revolutionary Korean people in the
>last century had this to say; " Any negotiations with
>the aim of strangling the Liberation struggle from
>imperialism is a sell out!"
>
>We in the Irish Political Status Committee will not be
>intimidated and we call upon any individuals or
>progressive organisations who can hold a function for
>us in the near future to get in contact at
>statusnow@yahoo.co.uk This will be a function which
>will call for Political status for Republican
>prisoners and an end to Partition. It WILL also allow
>the Vol. Joe O`Connor republican Flute Band a platform
>to perform for the first time in England!
>
>The Irish Political status Committee held a
>successful contingent on the Wolfe Tone Societys
>`James Connolly / Bobby sands Commemoration March on
>saturday 25th May. It was the smallest Irish
>Republican March ever and at least one third was made
>up of Revolutuionay Turkish and Kurdish Comrades. We
>were the only Contingent apart from the Revolutuionay
>Turkish and Kurdish Comrades present to shout
>anti-imperialist Revolutionary slogans such as:
>
>* 1234 Smash down Maghaberry Door! 5678 smash down
>Portlaoise Gate!
>
>* Britain out of Ireland! Prisoners out of Jail!
>
>* To hell with your concessions England! We want our
>country!
>
>Many copies of the Newsletter were sold covering
>recent reports of the struggle for Political Status
>and recent statements from the Irish Republican
>Prisoners Welfare Association.
>
>To all those who were to atend the social, to Bryan
>Dolan and Pat Kelly and to the Vol. Joe O`Connor
>Republican Flute Band who were to provide the Music, a
>big Go raibh Mait Agat !
>
>"We haven`t gone away you Know" and we will return
>stronger and our Social WILL succeed with ALL YOU
>PRESENT!
>
>Irish Political Status Committee Web Site :
>http://humanrightsonline.net ( Courtesy Of Comrade
>Dawn Michelle Gould ) Look at Ireland section.
>
>E mail: statusnow@yahoo.co.uk
>
>Snail mail: IPSC, BM BOX 1981, London, WCIN - 3XX

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