As we co to press Irish Republican pris oner Frank Stagg is at the point of death He has been vino critically til in the hospital wing of Wakefield Prison for some weeks now. Latest bulletins indicate a serious decline in his condition. In the meantime a regular picket has Deen neio oursice tne nome or Labou Home Secretary Roy Jenkins.
There was a time when the press talked enthusiastically of the "liberal" and 'humane' qualities of Roy Jenkins. We presume that it was his humanitarian qualities that led him to introduce the Prevention of Terrorism Act and to suspend the democratic rights of the Irish people in this country. We presume that it is his humanitarian qualities which now lead him to try to solve the dispute about the political status of Irish Repub lican prisoners by bringing them to the point or deat Frank Stagg's death would simply be the end point of a regime of solitary confinement, of personal abuse including being left naked in his cell, and of force feeding. The complete indifference of Jenkins and the Labour Government to the plight of Frank Stagg and to his impending death is a disgrace. Stagg and his comrades-particularly Gerry Mealey who has also been on hunger strike since la becember - are pontical pris oners. It is with that in mind that Red week v calls once more tor the release of all political prisoners in British jails
2 Cuts/ Steel Red Weekly 29 January 1976 The National Co-ordinating Committee Against Cuts in the NHS is organising a picket on 12 February from 13-2 p.m. outside