International Marxist Tendency

On the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, who died on May 5, 1981 after 66 days of a heroic hunger strike in the H-blocks in Long Kesh prison we remind our readers of Gerry Ruddy's article  On the 25th Anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 and Alan Woods' Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution - Part Ten, which analyses the hunger strikers' struggle from a Marxist point of view. Ten hunger strikers died in total, and 30 years later we must remember their heroism but also learn the lessons of that experience.