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Date Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2008, 1:25:55 PST
Author: iapl_newsroom32@hotmail.com
Subject: IRSN SALUTE BRENDAN
In reply to: iapl_newsroom32@hotmail.com 's message, "ADAMS CARRIEd REMAINS" on Wed, Feb 20 2008, 1:05:12 PST

IRSN: Final Salute to Brendan Hughes and a Republican Socialist MartyrRemembered19 February 2008 Brendan Hughes was a major figure in the struggle of Irish Republican Prisonersof War, whose passing is marked by the International Republican SocialistNetwork's comrades with great sadness. Hughes died Saturday night, 16 February2008 at the age of 59. As the Officer Commanding of the Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners inLong Kesh, he ordered the commencement of the 'dirty protest' and was a leaderof the 1980 hunger strike. He also called an end to that strike, after 53 days,as Sean McKenna was near death and the prisoners believed they had won anagreement with the British government. With Tommy McKearney and others, Hughes was a member of the League of CommunistRepublicans in the late 1980s, who published the periodical 'Congress 86'. Hughes became a major critic of Provisional Sinn Fein policies, call the Adamsleadership, "the Armani suit brigade". He later went on to found theperiodical, 'The Blanket'. He underwent surgery two years ago to save his sight due to lingering physicalproblems orignating in the 1980 hunger strike and his death at only 59 may alsohave been contributed to by the physical toll of the hunger strike. Though not an Irish National Liberation Army volunteer, the comrades of theInternational Republican Socialist Network mourn the passing of Brendan Hughesand applaud the contributions he made throughout his life to the struggle fornational libertion in Ireland. As the anniversary of his death, on the 20th of February, swiftly approaches,comrades of the International Republican Socialist Network also join inremembering INLA volunteer Hugh Ferguson with pride. Comrade Ferguson was thefirst martyr of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, killed byreactionaries within the Official Irish Republican Army as retribution for thesplit from their ranks that led to the founding of the IRSM, and, as such,reminds us of the history of profound repression that the IRSM was forced toendure in its struggle to represent the highest consciousness of the Irishworking class. The IRSM erected a memorial to Hugh Ferguson in the Whiterock area of WestBelfast, on 23 February 2003, which comrades of the IRSN are proud to havehelped support. The baptism or blood and fire endured by the IRSM helped to ensure themovement's commitment to revolutionary politics and we continue to drawinspiration from the movement's martyrs. Mindful of the sacrifice of comrade Ferguson and other martyrs of the IRSM, thecomrades of the International Republican Socialist Network remain determined todo everything in our power to combat the drive towards reformism being fosteredby the present leadership of the IRSP and to promote the revolutionary,traditional republican socialist analyasis that guided the IRSM through itsfirst three decades. The sacrifice made by Hugh Ferguson and other fallencomrades of the IRSM cannot be permitted to have been in vain.

Peter Urban Comrade, International Republican Socialist Network

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