THE IRISH WIELDING THE CLUB STRUGGLE - Three major rallies and a series of public meetings are to be the highlights of a week of activity in Britain to draw atteation to the continued existence of internment in the North of Ireland.
From GERY LAWLESS As Whitelaw attempts to gither the first har vest of his carrot and big stick policy, with the first mecting of the Assembly, and attempts Long Kesh Concentration Camp generally to convey the impression of the retum to pormality being just around the corner, it is becoming more imperative than over that demonstrations, public meetings etc. be used to hammer home the fact that a year and a half after Direct Rule, Long Kesh Concentration Camp is full.
In London, twelve organisations representing the whole spectrum of irish political activity have established an ad hoc Anti-Internment Committee which is organising a demonstration on 12 August beginning at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park at 2,30 p.m.
In Glasgow, a public meeting will be held on the anniversary of internment, 9 August. In Coventry, the Coventry Prisoners Defence Committee is the main organiser of a rally against internment and against the repression of Irish militunts in Britain, In Birmingham, a rally and demonstration on Sunday, 5 August, will be the main focus of a week of activity on the Irish question. In Newport, Wales, In South Shields, and in numerous other areas, plans are being laid for a whole series of pickets of Army Recruiting offices, Meanwhile, one of the Irish militants arrested in the Coventry area in the nation wide police raids in April, Tim Canty, has been acqutted of a charge of illegal possession of one hundred rounds of 22 ammunition. The jury at Worcester Assize Court were obviously unim pressed by the antics of the prosecution cousel, who, lifting up the banner of the Barnes and MoCormack Branch of Sinn Fein (Kevin Street), tore into the jury and told them how "viclence is written all over this banner'; or the evidence of the police who informed the court that when the pack of ammunition was allegedly found, Canty shuddered and his mouth dried up. Asked by defence counsel to describe how they knew that someone's mouth had "dried up". police said they knew this from "experience" Despite these ploys, the hysteria surrounding the case, and the judge's praise of the police evidence, a middle-aged, middie-class, High Tory jury in Worcester found the defendant not guilty For decalls of the London demonstration, contact Anti-Interment Ad Hoc Committee, co Bob Purdic 01-348-3752.
a rally with national speakers. All organisations who actively support the march and rally are invited to send a speaker along too. We hope for an anthusiastic response to this from the people in Coventry. How aver, we urge all socialists, republicans and trade. unionists throughout the Midland areas to participate TCH SCENTEERS We mist combat the incroased rep ression in Britain the use of concuracy laws). Dex show those struggling in Ireland for self determination that we have not forgotten them.
Further details about coaches leaving from towns in the Midlands, speakers, ate pinase contaet the Coventry Prisoners Datens Committan At 27. Payn Lane, Hillfields, Country.
Fraternally William Thompson (for CPDC) stration to protest against the failure of the