ON MONDAY 24 January, while queuing to observe the Balcombe Street siege trial, Michael Maguire, were arrested outside the Old Balley under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and subsequently interrogated for 24 hours. All three members of the London branch of Sinn Fein.
Later that day, in the Old Bailey itself, three of the accused in the Balcombe Street trial refused to plead on 25 counts of bombing and murder because the indictment did not include the Guildford and woolwich pud bomoings which, they claimed, three men OCCI convicted last October on the nimsiest of evidence. At that trial all the accused had stated that their "confessions" had been beaten out of them by the police, and all four have insisted on their innocence CYCE SINCE Then, in the early hours of last Saturdav. mInO. shook West don, the day before the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday'. Or that anniversary itself, what must be judged as a relatively small demonstration took to the streets in London to demand troops out now By the end of the week, no-one could say inal ne war in cane does not have its consequences in - 10| Ene mammand Inevitably it was the bombings when were given ine most space 1 the ruling class press. The statements that innocent people were serving life imprisonment crimes they did not commit shown that they have no concep tion of the tactics to adopt in this country which could assist the aim ol their struggle - tne witnarawal of Britain from Ireland.
But likewise neither will moralistic indignation over ings, or the raising of the slogar exolosIons "stop the bombings', aid the Irish End of Lon- people in tneir struggle for liberation and self-determination. As on similar occasions in the past, the first job of working class militants is to explain why the bombings took place.
The answer can be found every day in the streets of Belfast, Derry and elsewhere in the North of Ireland, as ine brush army or occu pation goes about its daily routine of beatings up. harassment. raids In one sense, what is remarkable is that the Irish Republicans comme morate the murder of 14 civilians in Derry five for years ago as bloodlessly as they did in London.
the bombcomrades SO anniversary ot the NAME Well, comrades, we didn't make our January target - in fact, with the December deficit New Year festivities but, as someone once said, The party's - and unless the money starts to come in soon that could Take on a couple meanine donations and standing 21,927.49. The area currently leading the way in raising mone for the Fund Drive is North London front this time next month? Socialist competition rules, OK?
To reach our total of £15,000 by May we want to notch u £2,500 each month. This means that we have to raise £5,572.5 by the end of February in order to catch up. That sounds a lot, but with many IMG branches organising special fund-activities this month we feel confident of a big response.
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