SELF-DETERMINATION
FOR THE IRISH PEOPLE!
The February 13, 1976, meeting of the International Execufive Committee of the Fourth International has learned with anger that Frank Stagg, Irish political prisoner, has died in a British jail from the effects of his long hunger strike. The Fourth International salutes the heroic protest and struggle of Frank Stagg as yet another incident in the struggle to free Ireland from the
The death of Frank Stagg was cynically brought about in cold blood by the Labour government.
Irstead of releasing Frank Stagg from solitary confinement and granting him political status by transferring him to the Six Counties, the government preferred that he die.
This crime agoinst the Irish people is yet another confirmation of the anti-working-class character of the Labour government and of its role as servant of British imperialism against the Irish,
But the death of Frank Stagg is also a sign that after nine centuries of British oppression, after suffering countless martyrs, and after seven years of the current struggle in the north of Ireland, the spirit of resistance to British imperialism lives on undounted among the Irish masses, Despite the presence of more than 15,000 British troops, despite the presence of the notorious torturers and murderers of the SAS, despite the harassment, brutalization, and repression of the masses,
Frank Stagg has not died in vain. His death will redouble the efforts of the Irish masses in their struggle against the imperialist aggressor, it will redouble, the determination of all socialists and militants in Britain and throughout the international working class in the fight for solidarity with the struggle of the Irish masses, of all those fighting to drive British imperialism out of Ireland.
The Fourth International calls for full solidarity with is British and other sections in their tasks of developing a mass struggle for the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and with its Irish section, the Revolutionary Marxist Group, in its struggle for an Irish workers republic.
The IEC of the Fourth International expresses its complete sympathy with the relatives and Republican comrodes of Frank Stagg and its militant solidarity with all those fighting for the liberation domination of British imperialism.
British, and international working class.
the struggle goes on.
of Ireland.
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RELEASE ALL IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS!
BRITISH TROOPS OUT OF IRELAND NOW!
SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE IRISH PEOPLE!