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Date Posted: Saturday, December 03, 22:00:38
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSCNA: International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

3 December 2005
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

Statement for the First International Day of Solidarity with Political
Prisoners

On behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, the Irish
Republican Socialist Committees of North America issue the following
statement in support of the First International Day of Solidarity with
Political Prisoners. We send our greetings to all of the solidarity
events being held today as well as to all progressive or revolutionary
political prisoners.

Over the thirty-one years the IRSM has existed, members of the
Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation
Army have been imprisoned by the British imperialist state and its
lackeys in the partitionist regime of Dublin for their role in the
struggle for national liberation and socialism in Ireland. They took
part in all of the prison struggles, from the blanket protests to the
dirty protests to the hunger strikes. Three members of the INLA --
Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine -- gave their lives on
hunger strike in 1981, along with seven members of the Provisional
Irish Republican Army, protesting the removal of their status as
political prisoners of war.

Whether they're imprisoned in America, Britain, Ireland, France,
Spain, Iraq, or anywhere else, Irish republican socialists stand in
solidarity with those progressives or revolutionaries imprisoned
because of their political beliefs or their politically motivated
actions against oppressive, imperialist states, recognising that those
struggles against oppression and imperialism are part of the same
struggle for human liberation that we're engaged in.

We would like to take this opportunity to call further attention to
the hunger strike being undertaken by Spanish political prisoners in
France. We stand with you, comrades, and we call on all progressives
and revolutionaries to also stand in solidarity with you.

We again call on the Dublin regime to free our comrade Dessie O'Hare,
who is a qualifying prisoner under the early release scheme of the
Good Friday Agreement. According to the terms of the GFA, he should
have been released no later than 2000, yet he remains a hostage of the
Dublin regime. We say free Dessie O'Hare now!

In conclusion, as the IRSM boldly goes forward in our struggle for
socialism and the liberation of humankind from the shackles of
capitalism and imperialism, we stand in solidarity with progressive or
revolutionary political prisoners and prisoners of war and we condemn
the oppressive, imperialist states which have them imprisoned.

Saoirse Go Deo! Freedom Forever!

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Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 8266
Austin TX 78713-8266
USA
irscna@irsm.org
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